In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement’s of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
The education of attention would be an education par excellence.
Truth happens to an idea.
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
The strenuous life tastes better.
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.