“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar”
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“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar”
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life”
“I do not know myself and God forbid that I should”
“Fortune doesn't change a man, it only unmasks him.”
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous”
“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable”
“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't ”
“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. ”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power ”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing”
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't”
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ”
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life”
“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own”
“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing”
“It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent”
“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained”