There is no sin except stupidity.

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

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

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.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.