Phrases
01. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
02. Learning never exhausts the mind.
03. Art is never finished, only abandoned.
04. He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
05. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
06. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
07. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
08. Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
09. Water is the driving force of all nature.
10. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
11. Life well spent is long.
12. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
13. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
14. Nature never breaks her own laws.
15. Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
16. Our life is made by the death of others.
17. I love those who can smile in trouble.
18. Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
19. He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
20. Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
21. The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
22. Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
23. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
24. Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
25. All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
26. There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
27. The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.
28. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
29. Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
30. Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
31. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
32. Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
33. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
34. It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
35. Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
36. The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
37. He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
38. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
39. Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
40. The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
41. Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
42. He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
43. Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
44. You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
45. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
46. The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good.
47. In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
48. Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
49. Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
50. Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.