Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William ShakespeareTo avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert HubbardSadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.
Angelina JolieAll the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob DylanFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander PopeThere is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz KafkaThe wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
BuddhaI am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
SocratesTruth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark TwainTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand RussellEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar WildeDistrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin FranklinHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas JeffersonIf some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
ConfuciusWalk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John RuskinBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaReal knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
ConfuciusAt eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhere there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da VinciNever give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
ConfuciusPhilosophy is the highest music.
PlatoEvery man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard ShawNothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PlatoScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand RussellRichard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.
Hunter S. ThompsonIt seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
John C. MaxwellListen to many, speak to a few.
William ShakespeareJust as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BuddhaBy 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.
Terry PratchettWell, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
Neil ArmstrongIt is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma GandhiGetting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBetter a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William ShakespeareMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotNo face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Henry David ThoreauIt is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNever go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander PopeWe’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
Kendrick LamarGive thy thoughts no tongue.
William ShakespeareThe power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao TzuIt does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TolkienI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark TwainAn intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest HemingwayWe should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl JungSince we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise PascalLet no such man be trusted.
William ShakespeareThe older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. MenckenThere is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis BaconRashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThose that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
AristotleIt is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIf God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
Ray BradburyI learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.
Abraham LincolnIt is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
EpicurusDon’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!
Maya AngelouI have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will RogersHe who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. RowlingAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca