A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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