Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.
You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.
At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.
'What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you.'
Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.
A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all.
We only part to meet again.
Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.
So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it’s what keeps us afraid of the dark.” -Virginia Dare.
Distance makes everything beautiful.
The day we stop learning is the day we die.
In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.
There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what’s best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I’ve spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.
He who retreats lives longer.
Seasick,” Scatty mumbled. “That’s exactly what it feels like. Only worse.
And once begun, change cannot be reversed.
The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, and the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.