Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.