Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

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

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

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

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

No one but a fool is always right.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

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