Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

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

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

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

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

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

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

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

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.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.