The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

What you are comes to you.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

The wisest have the most authority.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Truth is a pathless land.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

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.