mindset Quotes

All movements go too far.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.