wisdom Quotes

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Never regret what you don't write.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.