Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

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

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

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

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

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

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

What one fool can understand, another can.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Fear is exciting for me.

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

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

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Common sense is not so common.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.