Wisdom Quotes

"No man was ever wise by chance." "Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions but through uprightness and wisdom" "I would rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia" "It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man" "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours." "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding" "We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us" "The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now " "The wise man does not grow old, but ripens" "The learned man knows that he is ignorant" "Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers." "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." "There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." "If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot" "Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time."