wisdom Quotes

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Just because you've seen 'My Cousin Vinny' doesn't qualify you to be a federal judge.