The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.