Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

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

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

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.