It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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

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

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Time discovers truth.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

No one but a fool is always right.

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

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

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

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.