Wisdom Quotes

"Children understand justice intuitively until they're taught to accept injustice."

"It is the individual who is the ultimate source of all values."

"The conflict between the idea that everybody should be made as comfortable as possible and the idea that people should bear the responsibility for their own welfare is becoming increasingly acute."

"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish."

"The more we try to make the world comfortable, the more uncomfortable we make it."

"Not all errors are equal. Some are more productive than others."

"The virtue of a free market is not that it produces the best of all possible results, but that it produces better results than the alternatives."

"The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas and still function."

"The most dangerous activist is the one convinced of his own rectitude."

"The greatest danger to civilization comes from those who mean well."

"The purpose of argument is not to convert, but to clarify."

"The question is not whether the creature is a rational being, but a sentient being."

"Prejudice apart, the word itself imports use and habit."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"Moral science has not profited much by the great men of the past."

"The principle of sympathy and antipathy is the most dangerous."

"Wisdom comes from experience and reflection."

"The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know."

"I think there is virtue in the admission of uncertainty."

"We must adjust our expectations to the actual possibilities."

"We are bound to make errors; wisdom lies in how we correct them."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he possesses the faculty of properly posing questions."

"Wisdom lies in recognizing the limits of our knowledge."

"Understanding requires both analysis and intuition."

"Resistance begins in the mind with independent thought."

"To understand society, follow the money and power."

"Independence of thought is the rarest and most valuable quality."

"The greatest gift is the capacity to see through illusions."

"The role of intellectuals is to speak truth to power, not serve it."

"Compassion and critical thinking must go together."