Wisdom Quotes

"To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think." "Wisdom comes from suffering." "The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture" "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself" "Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" "Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself" "Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private" "Whatever satisfies the soul is truth." "The future is no more uncertain than the present." "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese" "When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." "Not to be cheered by praise nor to be grieved by blame but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man" "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot" "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead" "Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry" "Character develops itself in the stream of life" "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean" "There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity"