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.