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.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

The worst men often give the best advice.

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

Being is the great explainer.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I mean, people aren’t continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don’t want to. We aren’t destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Law is mind without reason.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.