Eleanor Roosevelt

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

– Aristotle (a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period)

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (a former president of Liberia)

“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

• Xun Kuang, known as Xunzi (a Chinese Confucian philosopher of the 3rd century BC)

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”

“What you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”

– Confucius (a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”