Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
—Henry Ford
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
—Heraclitus
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
—Blaise Pascal
Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.
—Jonathan Edwards
Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.
—Jonathan Edwards
There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.
—Leo Tolstoy
All things come into being by conflict of opposites.
—Heraclitus
Of this one thing make sure against your dying day – that your faults die before you do.
—Seneca
It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
—Seneca
It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.
—Seneca
Beyond all things is the sea.
—Seneca
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
—Seneca
Although it is easy to deceive one another and to be deceived by others, there is one thing we cannot do – we cannot deceive God.
—D. L. Moody
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
—Plato
Are there not very important things which can only reveal themselves, under certain conditions and at certain times, by quite feeble indications?
—Sigmund Freud
Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.
—Blaise Pascal
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
—Isaac Newton
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The knowledge of all things is possible.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
—Plato
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
—Plato
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
—Plato
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
—Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
—Plato
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
—Plato