Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
D. H. Lawrence
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
Leonardo da Vinci
Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
William Butler Yeats
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Anton Chekhov
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
André Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until it’s done.