The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

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.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

Only the educated are free.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

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

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

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

Nature is not human hearted.