Quotes in wisdom
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occasion of folly.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.