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

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

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

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.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Study men, not historians.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

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

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.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

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

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

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.