Study the past, if you would divine the future.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.