The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

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.

Nature is not human hearted.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Facts are stubborn things.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

We cannot learn men from books.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.