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 do know and what you don't.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

If 50 Million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.