There is no sin except stupidity.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

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.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

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

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I don’t ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.