Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

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.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

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.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Peace is its own reward.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

Peace begins with a smile.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.