Wisdom Quotes

"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" "If you look for perfection, you'll never be content" "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time" "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth" "Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears" "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom" "Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting" "The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water" "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all" "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"