Aphorisms
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist'.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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