Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

-- Hermann Hesse

He who reads much and walks much, sees much and knows much.

-- Miguel de Cervantes

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Win with ability, not with numbers.

-- Alexander Suvorov

Consider your origin: you were not made to live as brutes, but to pursue virtue and knowledge.

-- Dante Alighieri

If in the first act you have a gun hanging on the wall, then in the last act it must fire.

-- Anton Chekhov