Wisdom Quotes

"Empty pockets never held anyone back Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that" "You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched" "Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart" "The world is larger than one’s political enemies." "Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know." "All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing. Yes, I think it was the happiest day of my life." "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom" "The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice." "When faced with the inevitable, get relative. " "Have the courage to use your own understanding" "Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck" "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." "The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one." "The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." "The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable." "Many a truth is said in jest" "There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men " "Time will reveal everything it is a babbler and speaks even when not asked" "Some people will never learn anything for this reason because they understand everything too soon"