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

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

I think I’ve got wiser.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

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

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The wisest have the most authority.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.