Wisdom Quotes

"The greatest good of the greatest number must be our guide."

"The art of legislation is to know what produces happiness and what produces misery."

"Each person is the best judge of their own happiness and well-being."

"The greatest good is achieved through the rational calculation of pleasure and pain."

"A rational being will always prefer the greatest happiness available to them."

"The happiness of future generations should weigh heavily in our moral calculations."

"Moral progress depends on our ability to overcome self-interest for the common good."

"Happiness is achievable only through the exercise of reason and careful moral deliberation."

"Wisdom comes from studying the actual conditions of existence."

"I am never content with myself in relation to my knowledge and virtue."

"The human being is an end in himself, not a means to some other end."

"The progress of humanity is the triumph of reason over passion."

"The ultimate goal of philosophy is to achieve wisdom."

"Virtue must be based on reason, not feeling."

"Memory is the bridge between past and present consciousness."

"The mind is a beautiful thing, yet it can only exist through perception"

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses"

"The pursuit of truth is the proper business of life"

"Distrust is a necessary virtue in a dangerous world"

"The chief things that the philosophers have made much ado about are hardly worth the learning"

"Nothing is so terrible as to see understanding decay"

"Words without ideas are just noise"

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time"

"True wisdom is not knowing the answers, but asking the right questions"

"The greatest wisdom often comes from admitting our ignorance"

"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution"

"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom"

"The person who knows only their own side of the question knows little of that."

"To know oneself is to understand both one's potential and one's limitations."

"The utility of any moral rule is determined by its tendency to promote the greatest happiness."