Wisdom Quotes

"The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom." "Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom." "A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation." "The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct." "The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil." "Nothing is so absurd that it has not been said by one philosopher or another." "To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die." "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind" "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." "I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it." "A man in the house is worth two in the street" "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." "Be humble or get humbled" "Life is a far larger phenomenon than what is happening in your little mind. " "The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. " "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits" "The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience" "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company"