The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

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.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

No one but a fool is always right.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.