He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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.‘

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

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

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

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

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.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

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

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

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

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

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

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.