It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

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 royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

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

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The more you know the less you need to say.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.