"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
“The man who lies to himself cannot distinguish the truth within him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
Alexandre Dumas
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
