Horace Greeley Quotes

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.

I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

A good party is one that is designed to entertain and bond friends. The bad parties I've been to are the ones that are held to impress other people.

Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.