The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable.
Confucius

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
Socrates

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

Plenty has made me poor.
Ovid

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee

When the student is ready, the master appears.
Buddhist Proverb

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Louis Bergson

History is written by the victors.
Machiavelli

To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself and now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton

It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own.
Malcolm Forbes

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche