Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Looking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

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

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

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!

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

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?

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Common sense is not so common.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

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.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.