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- "Careful with fire" is good advice we know.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so. - William Carleton
- A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
- Charles Buxton
- A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
- We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- Frederick William Robertson
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