To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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