His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to ‚Be Prepared‘ to meet them.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

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.‘

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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

We are wiser than we know.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

If you wished to be loved, love.

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

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

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

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

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

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

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

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.