Wisdom Quotes

"For a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful" "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things" "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them" "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." "The chances of finding out what is actually going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang a sense of humor on it and hope for the best." "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" "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"