Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Knowledge is true opinion.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

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

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

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.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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

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

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Change alone is unchanging.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

No man was ever wise by chance.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.