wisdom Quotes

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.