Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself.

There is a moon, that rests in the quiet cornersof a lover’s lips.

We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.

Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't.

This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.