Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Common sense is not so common.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

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.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

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

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.