Quotes About Wisdom

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The best ideas are common property.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Time discovers truth.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Man is a reasoning animal.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

No man ever became wise by chance.

Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.