Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

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

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

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

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

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.