Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

By words the mind is winged.

Some positive thinkers get consistent powerful results almost deserving of a scientific formula

I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.

It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.

Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.