Wisdom

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution

A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power

There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom

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

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom, one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others

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

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it

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

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior.

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