Wisdom

The aim of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Science does not think.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Great men are the true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species that are extraordinary.

Thinking is an art, feeling is a gift.

True philosophy is religion in thought; true religion is philosophy in action.

I prefer to be mad with the truth than sane with falsehood.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

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

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.