Quotes About Wisdom

The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.

Probable impossibilities are always to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Now each man can give a good judgment upon matters with which he is acquainted, and is in such cases a good judge. In each particular case, therefore, he judges best who has been taught the matter in question, and on all matters he whose education has been universal.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

All learning is derived from things previously known.

It is easy to have some knowledge about honey, wine, and hellebore, of cautery and the use of the knife; but how they should be applied for restoring health, to whom and when, is no less a matter than to be a physician.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.