An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

A witty saying proves nothing.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

No one but a fool is always right.

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?

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

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.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.