Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Our best thoughts come from others.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

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

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘