Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.

The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had read more

The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,
prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't
know anything about.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't
know anything about.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of the
heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn read more

Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of the
heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the
certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Work your way up or rust your way out.