A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.