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

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

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.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

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

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.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

No man was ever wise by chance.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.