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

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

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.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

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.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

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

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.