wisdom

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

"The basis of good manners is self-reliance."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
- Epictetus

"Character is determined by choice, not opinion."
- Aristotle

"Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends."
- Jacques Delille

"Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand."
- Sophocles

"True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods."
- Aristotle

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."
- Benjamin Franklin

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
- Mark Twain

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If virtue precede us every step will be safe."
- Seneca

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
- Winston Churchill

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
- John F. Kennedy

"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.”
- Buddha

"These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward."
- Albert Einstein

"A problem well put is half solved."
- John Dewey

"If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions."
- Albert Einstein

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
- George Bernard Shaw