Wisdom

"The only time you make mistakes is when you think you know all the answers."

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

"To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child."

"If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses."

"In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action."

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err"

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."

"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

"From good people you'll learn good, but if you mingle with the bad you'll destroy such soul as you had."

"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."

"Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness."

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

"Always say less than necessary."

"Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong he can never forget it, and if you prophesy right you can never remember it."

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."