It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Knowledge is power.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

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

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

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

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.