Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

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

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

We are so very ‚umble.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

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

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.