Wisdom Quotes

"The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world" "Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being… there are legitimate expectations, but one must always make room for the fallibility of human nature." "The further one goes, the less one knows" "He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty" "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it" "To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom." "The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing." "The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge." "Good advice I always hated, but looking back it made me greater." "There is nothing new but what has once been old" "The truth must be touched in the way snakes are touched, with a stick." "Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools." "He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak " "The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt " "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago "