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

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

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

I think I have always had a little humor.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Hatred is self-punishment.

We are so very ‚umble.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

The wisest have the most authority.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Hell is other people.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

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

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.