wisdom Quotes

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.