To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future
© Plutarch @quote
© Plutarch @quote
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live
© Mortimer Adler @quote
© Mortimer Adler @quote
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts
© Aristotle @quote
© Aristotle @quote
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark
© Amiel @quote
© Amiel @quote
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet
© James Oppenheim @quote
© James Oppenheim @quote
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all
© Dale Carnegie @quote
© Dale Carnegie @quote
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the worlds problems
© Mohandas Gandhi @quote
© Mohandas Gandhi @quote
Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
© Jean-Paul Sartre @quote
© Jean-Paul Sartre @quote