Popular Quotes Through Time

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is no substitute for hard work.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.

I never did a day's work in my life. it was all fun.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.