wisdom Quotes

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.