People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
Emma Goldman

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
Robert Kiyosaki

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
Sitting Bull

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore Vidal

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Hoover

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
Michael J. Fox

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
Marilyn vos Savant

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
Bertolt Brecht

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot