The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis BaconInformation is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinIf you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Napoleon HillBe careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
EpictetusTruth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma GandhiThe fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
Christopher HitchensI was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
Wayne DyerI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo GalileiExperience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
Leonardo da VinciDon’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark TwainI’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘
Maya AngelouWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl SaganHalf a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin FranklinI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnThou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AristotleNobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad AliThe progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
VoltaireAll philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
EpictetusThe time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. PattonMy father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.
Billy GrahamThe man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark TwainI love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.
Christopher HitchensPakistan is not a unified country.
Noam ChomskyAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawEvery people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Henry David ThoreauWe are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard ShawYou know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinTrue knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
SocratesHe who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da VinciBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.
B. C. ForbesAs the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen KellerI learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.
Jane GoodallBeing at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Eckhart TolleYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. RowlingHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonI believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Joel OsteenEvery man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert HubbardTo the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Marcus AureliusScience is nothing but perception.
PlatoThe bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.
RihannaAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo GalileiIt says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich NietzscheBetter than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
BuddhaFools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander PopeBlessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander PopeAs commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?
Jim MattisRegarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich NietzscheAs a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
ChanakyaIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard ShawIf we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. KennedyHe who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert HubbardWhat old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David ThoreauI want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.
Angelina JolieA little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil GibranThe last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.
Wayne DyerThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas JeffersonWisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Hermann HesseWithout words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse