Echoes

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I know that I know nothing.

If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The world will hardly admit of an excuse for a man leaving a coast unexplored he has once discovered.

Accept everything just the way it is.