Wisdom Quotes

"Public opinion when it is really the opinion of the public has a tendency to be right."

"The part of wisdom which consists in the knowledge of methods rather than of ultimate ends is not the highest kind."

"The worth of a human being is in inverse proportion to their reliance upon other people's opinions."

"Higher pleasures require cultivated judgment and refined sensibilities."

"Only the enlightened few will recognize the true value of freedom."

"The only thing that is unconditionally good is a good will."

"Criticism is the only true friend of reason."

"The only unconditional good is good will directed by reason."

"What you can will as universal law is the measure of your morality."

"Whoever fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

"The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to accomplish."

"A person's maturity consists in having found the serious and the significant, and in making peace with the relative unimportance of everything else."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"The world is not a moral place; the sooner we accept this, the sooner we can deal with it."

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."

"The specific character of despair is this: it is unaware of being despair."

"We live in a fantasy world where nearly everything we think we understand is actually false."

"The crowd is always wrong and the single individual is right."

"We ought to think black of this world, except insofar as it is subservient to another."

"To doubt everything is to understand nothing."

"The common people, they understand better the nature of things than the learned."

"To understand any phenomenon, we must look to its final cause."

"Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."

"In the discharge of duty the greatest wisdom lies."

"Those who are in the highest stations have the most need of knowledge."

"The understanding like the eye, judging of objects only by its own sight, must be blind to all that lies beyond its ken."

"No man ever makes a bad bargain who knows his own mind."

"God is in the details."