Quotes About Wisdom

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.