Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Common sense is not so common.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

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.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

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.

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

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I’m not really book-smart.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Time discovers truth.

There is no sin except stupidity.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.