Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The lie is a condition of life.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.