Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

There is no knowledge that is not power.