Wisdom Quotes

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat" "There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living" "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower" "We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility" "The world tells you to pursue success as if it is the key to happiness. The key to true, lasting happiness is to pursue wisdom" "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it" "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" "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt" "Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so" "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts" "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"