Archived Quotes

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I am not concerned with popularity.

I am concerned with doing what is right.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life

stimulates the creative mind.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The only real voyage of discovery is not in seeing new sights

but in seeing things anew.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated,

I have spoken as I have thought.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but,

holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be

right than at all times to be wrong,

so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous,

I shall be ready to renounce them.

Be true to yourself;

don’t let fame change who you are.

Man is condemned to be free.

The most dangerous phrase in investing is:

‘This time it’s different.’

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

You,

who have it to see,

welcome it—and forget not those who have fallen during the night.

The stock market is a device for transferring

money from the impatient to the patient.

It is astonishing what an effort

it seems to be for many people

to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Order without liberty and liberty without order

are equally destructive.

I love when people are real.

It’s the best thing anyone can be.

We are wiser than we know.

We are all Republicans,

we are all Federalists.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.