The galaxy of wisdom

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

A different language is a different vision of life.

All language is an alphabet of symbols whose use presupposes a past shared by all.

Language is the dress of thought.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Fortune favors the bold.

Lost time is never found again.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

I am still learning.

One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: by reflection, by imitation, and by experience.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Well done is better than well said.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Knowledge is power.

Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; now put the foundations under them.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Slowly, slowly, the egg will walk.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.