Wisdom Quotes

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." "Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist." "To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." "Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do" "Goethe said things that comfort the soul and the mind can bear" "Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know." "Every age has its own blindness." "He who thinks greatly must err greatly." "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong" "The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world" "Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being… there are legitimate expectations, but one must always make room for the fallibility of human nature." "The further one goes, the less one knows" "He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty" "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it" "To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom." "The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing." "The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge." "Good advice I always hated, but looking back it made me greater." "There is nothing new but what has once been old" "The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick."