wisdom Quotes

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.