Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Information is not knowledge.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

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

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

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

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.