The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Never, never, never give up.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The less you know, the more you believe.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

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

I’m committed to the fight game.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

There is no education like adversity.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

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

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Seeing is not always believing.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.