Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are

simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
Huston Smith

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Leonard Woolf

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Louis XIV

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
Neil Kinnock

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
Stevie Nicks