Quotes to inspire and reflect

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.