Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
—Marcus Aurelius
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
—Henry Ford
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen
—René Descartes
New prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.
—Immanuel Kant
Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not.
You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
We don’t and can’t know what happiness for all people consists of, but we know full well that gaining this common happiness is possible only through the eternal law of kindness, revealed through human wisdom and residing in the hearts of all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Innocence is indeed a glorious thing, only, on the other hand, it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself, and is easily seduced.
—Immanuel Kant
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
—Seneca
When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington
A certain awkwardness usually marks our use of borrowed thoughts. They are too conspicuous, not being well placed.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
—Mark Twain
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
—Henry David Thoreau
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
—Søren Kierkegaard
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To know ten thousand things, know one well.
—Miyamoto Musashi
“It is all well with Christ’s cause because it is in his own hands. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands.”
Life well spent is long.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
—Charles Dickens
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.
God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
—Plato
There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
—Plato
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
—Seneca
I, as is well known, do not like cats.
—Sigmund Freud
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
—Henry Ford
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
—Plato