Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
Lao Tzu

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Lao Tzu

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran