Wisdom Quotes

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness" "It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about" "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live" "It is necessary to unlearn what we have learned because there is no substitute for experience" "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark" "112"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of the past centuries" "Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so" "Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality" "It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others." "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more so." "We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void." "Money can't buy life" "The day you stop racing is the day you win the race" "In the abundance of water, a fool is thirsty" "Judge not before you judge yourself" "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." "To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing, that is enough for one man's life" "Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe" "He that loves no woman lives an incomplete life" "Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."