self-improvement Quotes

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.