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.

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

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Time discovers truth.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

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.

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

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

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.