It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people
— Miles Franklin
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow
— Aesop
Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours
— Richard Bach
Self-reflection is the school of wisdom
— Baltasar Gracián
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue
— Henry David Thoreau
I now want to know all things under the sun, and the moon, too. For all things are beautiful in themselves, and become more beautiful when known to man. Knowledge is Life with wings
— Kahlil Gibran
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity
— Dale Carnegie
The sun will set without thy assistance
— The Talmud
Believe those who are seeking the truth, doubt those who find it
— Andre Gide
Not all those who wander are lost
— J.R.R. Tolkein
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal law
— Gautama Siddartha Buddha
Never compete, create
— Earl Nightingale
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion
— Socrates
You are one of the forces of nature
— Jules Michelet
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup