wisdom Quotes

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

A home without books is a body without soul.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.