Wisdom Quotes

"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself"

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous"

"Young men should be cautious about making vows"

"Much talking is a sign of dullness"

"To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom"

"Silence is the virtue of fools"

"The measure of a person is not in how they handle success, but in how they navigate the failures that precede it."

"The world rewards those who ask questions more than those who claim to have all answers."

"The cost of knowledge is the comfort of certainty, a price worth paying."

"The world is best understood not through isolated facts, but through patterns and relationships."

"Mathematics does not lie, but mathematicians often fail to ask the right questions."

"The true measure of intelligence is not in what one knows, but in one's capacity to learn what one does not."

"The scholar who cannot tolerate ambiguity will never penetrate to the heart of complexity."

"The scholar's greatest enemy is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."

"Disease of the mind is far more dangerous and terrible than bodily disease."

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."

"A man may be said to be in a kind of debauchery if he should drink when not thirsty as well as eat when not hungry."

"The patient is the physician's teacher."

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."

"Those things which are sacred are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to impart them to the profane until they have been initiated into the mysteries of the science."

"The symptoms which the diseases produce are their voice and their revelation."

"Everything in excess is opposed by nature."

"The good physician knows his patients beyond the physical body."

"The symptoms are the cry of outraged organs."

"What is to be done in a case is the opposite of what the disease demands."

"If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you sicken on it."

"Praise the lovely day; but keep the night in mind."

"To be silent is sometimes the best answer."

"No one is fortunate in all things."

"Counsel is greater than gold."