A clever man commits no minor blunders.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

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

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

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

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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.

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

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

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

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

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

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

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

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.