Humphry Davy

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The true value of a man is not in what he has, but in what he is.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The soul is not in the body, but the body in the soul.

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

To be conscious is not to be in time, but to be in eternity.

The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind is the conductor.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.