Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

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

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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.

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

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

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

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

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.