Wisdom Quotes

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger" "There is nothing much that marks a man's progress better than a sense of humor" "Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall" "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion" "Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is knowledge we have lost in information?" "Better late than never, but never late is better" "As we grow older we lose illusons but gain experience and understanding." "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for" "I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing" "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance" "Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual" "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be" "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth" "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" "Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people" "Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth." "There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance" "Life is short, the art long"