“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.