Wilhelm von Humboldt Famous Quotes
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."
Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotations
"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
English Proverb
"Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter."
Henry Anatole Grunwald
"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."
Albert Einstein
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
Cyril Connolly
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."
Miguel de Cervantes
"When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
Martin Luther King Jr
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Bob Dylan
"If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know"
Steven Wright