wisdom Quotes

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.