Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

A letter does not blush.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

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

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

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.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

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

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

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