Quotes About Wisdom

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

No Sane man will dance.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Time was a river, not a log to be sawed into lengths.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.