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

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

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Time discovers truth.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

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.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.