wisdom Quotes

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

To give ones self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

We are wiser than we know.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the paren't of all the others.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.