Wisdom

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

It is the mind that makes the body rich

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation

A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.

As for my frenzy for work, I will compare it to an attack of herpes.

To get drunk with ink is more worth while than to get drunk with brandy.

In short, LIVING seems to me a business for which I was not made, and yet...!

In all weathers, wet or fine, it is my practice to go, towards five o’clock in the evening, to take a turn in the Palais Royal.

If the weather be too cold or too wet, I take shelter in the Regency coffee-house.

Nowhere in the world do they play chess so skilfully as in Paris, and nowhere in Paris as they do at this coffee-house.

My mind is no better than another's, but I have been lucky enough to chance on certain ways, which have led me to a certain method by means of which it seems to me that I may by degrees augment my knowledge to the modest measure of my intellect and my length of days.

I shall be very glad to make plain in this discourse the paths I have followed, and to picture my life so that all may judge of it, and by the setting forth of their opinions may furnish me with yet other means of improvement.

Centaur, fear for thy life!