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

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

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

No man is free who is not master of himself.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

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

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

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

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.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Beware the hobby that eats.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.