Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

We cannot learn men from books.

Common Core is a big win for education.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

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

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

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