A fool is wise in his eyes.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

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

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

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

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Information is not knowledge.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.