Wisdom Quotes

"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" "There is nothing permanent except change" "Much learning does not teach understanding" "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it" "Our patience will achieve more than our force" "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards" "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced" "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter" "I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had." "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well"