Wisdom Quotes

"The courage of truth is the first condition of philosophic study." "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." "Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live" "Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost" "Ignorance is the parent of fear." "It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart" "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another." "Ingratitude is the essence of vileness." "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition there" "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." "Philosophy is common sense with big words." "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do" "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him" "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" "Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself"