Philosophical Sayings

Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

Fortune favors the bold.

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone person to person.

Entrance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country speak to the imagination.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

The heart itself is the first to live and the last to die.

It is not by words, but by facts and arguments, that we must seek for truth.

I hold that the motion of the blood is in a circle, and is constantly impelled and distributed by the pulsific action of the heart.

The more accurately we search into the wonderful works of God, the more a reason we shall find to admire them.