Wisdom

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.