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.

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.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

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

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

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.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.