wisdom Quotes

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Virtue is harmony.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.