wisdom Quotes

A penny saved is two pence clear.

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

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

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

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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

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

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

Youth is wasted on the young.