The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

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.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

In married life three is company and two none.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Knowledge is true opinion.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

Common sense is not so common.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.