Famous Quotes About wisdom

Mastery is not perfection, it is journey, and the true master must be willing to try and fail and try again.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.