Great and good are seldom the same man.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

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

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

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

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.