It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

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

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

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

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The wisest have the most authority.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

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

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

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

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

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

A witty saying proves nothing.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

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

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.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

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

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

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.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.