wisdom Quotes

If you would judge, understand.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

While we teach, we learn.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.