Wisdom Quotes

"The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk." "The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." "You should never trust a storyteller; only trust the story" "You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it." "Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?" "Hell is truth seen too late" "It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law" "Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up." "Errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." "Every wise, just, and fortunate man that once existed, first possessed the principle of truth within his breast." "Three keys to success: read, read and read" "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths." "We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong." "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth" "Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."