If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

You just have to have a simple faith.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

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

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

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

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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.‘

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.