"What we
achieve inwardly will change outer reality." --
Plutarch
"What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul?" --Jesus
Christ"By
three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which
is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third
by experience, which is the bitterest." --Confucius"When I investigate and when I discover that
the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves,
then truly I seem to be living among the gods." --Leon
Battista Alberti
"It is the mark of an
educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it." --
Aristotle"If a man will begin with
certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content
to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." --Francis Bacon"To be ignorant of the
lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in
a state of childhood all our days." --
Plutarch"Wisdom outweighs any
wealth." --
Sophocles