There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

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

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Nature is not human hearted.

Facts are stubborn things.

Admiration is the daughter of 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.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

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

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

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

Children are all foreigners.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Science is nothing but perception.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.