The only source of knowledge is experience.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

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.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

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

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Study men, not historians.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

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

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

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

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

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Knowledge is power.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

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.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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