Quotes About Wisdom

Every invalid is a physician.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses before zebras.

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgement.

Women and elephants never forget.

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Too much talk will include errors.

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct, is quite a man.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.