Wisdom Quotes

"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve" "Beware the man of a single book." "Leisure is the mother of philosophy" "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite" "He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise" "The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction" "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life" "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" "Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all" "He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass" "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek" "Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is even in shorter supply than genius" "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one" "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none" "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul" "The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired" "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish" "Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness"