Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
History • Priorities • Time
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Discovery • Education • Ignorance
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Knowledge • Philosophy • Science
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Improvement • Motivational • Personal Development
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Actions • Advice • History
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education • Humility • Knowledge
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Art • Communication • Diplomacy
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Equality • Nature
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Art • Philosophy • Science
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
History
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Desire • Knowledge • Soul
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Age • Discovery • Freedom
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Civilization • Culture • Education
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Age • Love • Relationships
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Ignorance • Knowledge • Perception
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Economics • Politics
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Civilization • Family • Society
