Wisdom Quotes

"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting" "The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water" "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all" "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "For a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful" "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things" "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them" "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." "The chances of finding out what is actually going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang a sense of humor on it and hope for the best." "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" "Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve" "Beware the man of a single book." "Leisure is the mother of philosophy"