self-discovery Quotes

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.