Wisdom Quotes

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free" "All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare" "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past" "A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors" "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness" "There is no story that is not true, the world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others " "A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself" "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence" "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves" "Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies" "There is no friend as loyal as a book" "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self" "A book should be a ball of light in one's hand." "Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope." "To have opinions is to sell the essence of today for the essence of tomorrow." "Patience is a conquering virtue" "The life so short, the craft so long to learn" "The greatest scholars are not the wisest men" "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."