"There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood." - Santiago Ramon y Cajal

"The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not so much shame has to be overcome on the way to it." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. " - Oscar Wilde

"You think that good is hating what is bad. What is bad is the hating mind itself. - Bon Kai (Buddhist monk)

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." - Oscar Wilde

"If you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right." - Paul Graham

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." - Milan Kundera

"If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his money, but subtract from his desires." - Epicurus

"Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only." - Blaise Pascal

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Albert Einstein

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne." - Chaucer

"If you think something's supposed to hurt, you're less likely to notice if you're doing it wrong. That about sums up my experience of graduate school." - Paul Graham