Wisdom

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

I am not young enough to know everything.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that a 100 wise men can’t get out.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher .

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.

Perhaps he even needs to have been a critic and a sceptic and a dogmatist and an historian, and in addition a poet and collector and traveller and puzzle-solver and moralist and seer and ‘free spirit’ and nearly all things, so that he can traverse the range of human values and value-feelings and be able to look with many kinds of eyes and consciences from the heights into every distance, from the depths into every height, from the corners into every wide expanse.

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.