Society and the World

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Poor is the man who desires a lot.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, Write these on three stones.

When you are alone you are all your own.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things 50 which may come to pass, though but slowly.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

I’m not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.