Time discovers truth.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Nature is not human hearted.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Science is but an image of the truth.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

What one fool can understand, another can.

The 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!

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.