Sean

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche