Aphorisms
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Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Time is money.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
True friends stab you in the front.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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