Posted on
Wednesday 7 September 2005
- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.
- It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
- To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
- When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.