Quotes On Wisdom

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.