"To learn without thinking is labour in..." - Quote by Confucius

“Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have”

“A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.”

“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”

“The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.”

“When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better.”

“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn”

“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”

“To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.”

“The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!”