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

I think I’ve got wiser.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

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.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

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

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.