Wisdom Quotes

"The negation of negation leads to affirmation"

"Wisdom is the integration of experience"

"Virtue is the actualization of human potential"

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth."

"As a man is so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers."

"No one can give you better advice than yourself."

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"Wisdom comes from the multitude of counselors."

"To prefer sensual pleasures to true knowledge is to be enslaved."

"Words are wise men's counters."

"Prudence is the virtue proper to a person."

"All truth is not to be spoken in all circumstances."

"Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools."

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"

"There is no such thing as a free lunch"

"We ought to prefer the latter choice"

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"

"It is a perpetual question of wisdom to distinguish the genuine from the spurious"

"The errors of youth are the ruin of the future"

"Deep experience and learning are the parents of wisdom"

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal natural law."

"We cannot act morally unless we first think clearly."

"The mind creates order from chaos through the categories of understanding."

"We see only what we are prepared to see."

"Judgment is the highest intellectual faculty."

"Sensibility and reason must work together in human understanding."

"Our sense of duty is the foundation of all morality."

"We cannot know things as they are in themselves, only as they appear to us."

"Public reason constrains what citizens can legitimately demand of each other in a democratic society."