Wisdom Quotes

"All evil comes from the neglect of utility in favor of caprice."

"The pursuit of pleasure must be regulated by reason."

"The only real poverty is the poverty of the spirit."

"Intelligence without benevolence is mere cleverness."

"The strength of conviction must be tempered by the wisdom of doubt."

"The pleasures of the mind are superior to the pleasures of the body."

"Wisdom is knowing the limits of one's knowledge."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change one's mind."

"The more a man limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes."

"Life has its own hidden meaning that the busy man fails to perceive."

"Resignation is the fruit of wisdom."

"But this is the way with men: if they have a chance of getting anything, they are always so much taken up with what can be got that they do not notice the best thing of all."

"There is nothing to which men are so much disposed as to think they know a great deal when they know very little."

"Spiritual maturity means learning to see what others cannot see."

"Suffering is the pathway to understanding."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

"Be careful, lest in escaping Scylla you fall into Charybdis."

"What does not kill me, makes me wiser."

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper."

"The good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes, but only because of its willing."

"The only thing that has intrinsic worth is a good will."

"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"Nothing can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will."

"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage."

"If the mind is to understand other minds, it must look beyond itself."

"Questions asked in ignorance are marked by stupidity."

"Reason is the capacity to follow universal laws."

"The highest good is the kingdom of ends."

"We are perpetually haunted by the limits of knowledge."