wisdom Quotes

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.