Quotes About Wisdom

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Skúsenos? bez vzdelania je viac ako vzdelanie bez skúsenosti.

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.