The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

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.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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

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

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Nature hates calculators.

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

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Knowledge is power.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.