Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

All the world's follies, he replied, turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with...

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

I'd learned from my mother that when someone gives you a subjective compliment - meaning one that can't be disproven and is based on opinion - but that you find to be completely false, rather than...

Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It's remembering Socrates' wisdom lay in the fact that he knew that he knew next to nothing.

Real experience is knowledge

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two - by - four. I always found listening easier.

"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up...

In the lowest Hell you find ignorance. In the lowest Heaven you find shrewdness.

Man goes looking for trouble, trouble's got a habit of following the scent right back to him.

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly. Yes, answered Kenny, if you write them a very nice poem. What is an only goat? A lonely goat,...

Once the troublesome mind begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work. But if you can surpass those thoughts,...

"... at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was life you learned from, passion, experience. The host, a fine old...

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Why then should witless man so much misjudge That nothing is but that which he hath seen?

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added with a pause: There are no...

If you chase several hares at once, you won't undertake any one of them.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice — just policy

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.