wisdom Quotes

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from... ...

"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will."

"There is no vaccine against stupidity."

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Learning can be hard at first, but the results are sweet.

"More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use."

“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of... ...

“If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.”

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.