"Wisdom is not the purchase of a..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.”

“A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.”

“It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.”

“There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.”

“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.”

“If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.”

“We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.”

“We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school”

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”