Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.