Wisdom Quotes

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell" "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience" "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes" "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him" "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored" "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." "The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." "To live alone is the fate of all great souls." "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"