wisdom Quotes

Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.