I am not young enough to know everything.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Knowledge is power.

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

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.