Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others..

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose..

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of o….

Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we are wise, we will c….

What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future, — a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better con….

No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most n….

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know..

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing..

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution..

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself..

I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set ….

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are..

Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Compl….

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool..

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin..

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one..

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand ….

The wise person questions himself, the fool others..

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy..

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances..