Wisdom is found only in truth.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The object of the superior man is truth.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

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.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

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

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

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.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.