wisdom Quotes

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

What we live by we die by.