We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Nature is not human hearted.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

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

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.