Half a truth is often a great lie.

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

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

I don’t have anything to hide.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I can be a cruel person.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‚quote,‘ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‚end quote.‘

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.