activity is the only road to knowledge.

a free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides book.

a great part to the information i have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

if a man empties his purse into his head,no man can take it away from him,an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

imagination is more important than knowledge.

knowledge is power.

the empty vessels make the greateat sound.

behavioral research discloses that human relations at work are just easier,perhaps because they are more regular and predicatable and thus simpler to adjust to than the sporadic,the more intense and less regular relationship in the community.

don't gild the lily.

every man's work,whether it be literature of music of picture or architecture of anything else,is always a portrait of himself.

growth and change are the law of all life.yesterday's answers are inadequate for today's problems--just as the solution of today will not fill the needs of tomorrow.

happiness,i have discovered,is nearly always a rebound from hard work.

i don't like work--no man does--but i like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself.

in order that people may be happy in their work,these things are needed: they must be fit for it;they must not do much of it;and they must have a sense of success in it.

in our efforts to adjust differences of opinion we should be free from intolerance of passion,and our judgments should be unmoved by alluring phrases and unvexed by selfish interests.
(A voluptuous, alluring woman.肉感的，具有诱惑力的女人)

in silence,in steadiness,in severe abstraction,let him hold by himself,add observation to observation,patient of neglect,patient of reproach,and bide his own time,happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly.
(His mother reproached him for his bad manners. 他的母亲责备他礼貌不周)
(Bide yet a little. 请再等一会儿)

it is no use doing what you like;you have got to like what you do.

my philosophy of life is work.

one of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important,and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.if i were a medical man,i should prescribe a holiday to many patients who considered their work important.
(The doctor made his diagnosis after studying the patient's symptoms. 医生研究病人的症状后, 作出诊断)

the best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

the office of the scholar is to cheer,to raise,and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

to do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

to him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need,if I plunge in without delay.

to youth I have three words of counsel--work,workandwork .

we often hear of people breaking down from overwork,but in nine cases out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

why should work be such a significant source of human satisfaction?A good share of the answer rest in the kind of pride that is stimulated by the job,by the activity of accomoplishing .

work banishes those three great evils:boredom,vice,and poverty.

work is more than a necessary for most human beings;it is the focus of their lives ,the source of their identity and creativity.

work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

work is worth doing of worth doing well .