Wisdom Quotes

"The capacity for a sense of justice is fundamental to human beings and essential for social cooperation."

"Reasonable disagreement about conceptions of the good is compatible with agreement on principles of justice."

"The principles of justice are general, universal in application, and non-arbitrary."

"Public political culture provides the language for citizens to justify their claims to one another."

"To be ancient is to be superior in wisdom and virtue."

"The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life seems to arise from overrating the difference between one permanent situation and another."

"Wisdom and virtue are by no means so permanently seated in any individual."

"All for ourselves and nothing for other people is, at all times and in all cases, an odious maxim."

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."

"The understanding of history is the foundation of all wisdom."

"Wisdom is the ability to see the infinite in the finite."

"He who imagines that he is hated by all is in error about the facts."

"The human mind is a part of the infinite intellect of God."

"Imagination is the lowest form of knowledge; reason is intermediate; intuition is highest."

"The human mind is eternal insofar as it understands things under the form of eternity."

"The mind's power is increased in proportion as it understands itself and the body."

"The mind is eternal insofar as it understands."

"Reason demands that everyone should love himself and desire good for himself."

"The mind has the greater power to understand the more it is united with the body."

"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them."

"Prudence is the virtue of action."

"Reason is nothing but reckoning."

"Silence is the virtue of the wise."

"Action without thought is the path to ruin."

"We inherit not land, but the obligation to preserve it for those who come after."

"Wisdom comes from experience and reflection."

"The mind is not confined by the bounds of sensible experience but may extend its inquiries beyond the present moment."

"All mankind consists of three sorts of people: those who learn by reading, those who learn by observation, and the vast majority who learn by experience."

"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."

"God has been pleased to give us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak."