Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you. "
To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.
You have to learn humility. First of all you have to be humble people. Unless and until you have a large heart you can never humble down. You have to be an extremely humble person. Humility doesn't mean that you bow to a person who is dominating, it never means that. But it means a strength within you. The person who is weak can never be humble.
