Wisdom Quotes

"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." "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"