If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

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.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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

No man was ever wise by chance.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

No one but a fool is always right.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Not all those who wander are lost.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Error is always more busy than truth.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘