wisdom
“To know what you know and what you do not know—that is true knowledge.”
“The beginnings of all things are small.”
“Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
“Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.”
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
“I have committed the worst sin one can commit. I have not been happy.”
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
“Excess of sorrow laughs; excess of joy weeps.”
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity.”
“Habit is a great deadener.”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
“Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.”