Wisdom Quotes

"In order to know, you need to perform an act of faith." "The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts" "The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances" "The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect" "A problem well put is half solved" "The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about" "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" "There is no greater sin than that of willful ignorance" "The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time" "The wisest man I ever knew in my life could not read or write" "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." "A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things" "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it" "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours" "The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind " "The weak in courage is strong in cunning " "Without contraries is no progression " "The fox condemns the trap, not himself " "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees "