I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I know love is the answer.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I’ve been very fortunate.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I love life because what more is there?

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

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

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

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.

Life is precious.

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 don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.