wisdom Quotes

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.