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

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

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

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Life is wasted on the living.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

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

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

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

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

In time of war the laws are silent.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Being is the great explainer.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.