People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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

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

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Be not a slave of words.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

The more you know the less you need to say.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

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

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Science is nothing but perception.

Smiles are the language of love.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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.

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.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

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

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.