We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I know love is the answer.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

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

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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.

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.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

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

I’ll die a crazy old man!

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.