Wisdom Quotes

"Great harm proceeds from too much faith " "Many a true word is spoken in jest " "There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom." "It is not to weigh anchor that we must train masters." "An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it." "As a writer you should not judge, you should understand." "Wealth is the slave of the wise man, the master of the fool." "The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; a wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be." "It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have." "It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing." "Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit" "Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness visible." "The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." "We cannot change anything unless we accept it." "The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."