wisdom Quotes

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.