No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

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.

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

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

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

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

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.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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.

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

We are wiser than we know.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

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.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.