None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

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

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

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.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

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

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

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

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

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.

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

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

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

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

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

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

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