Wisdom Quotes

“First you got to get mad. You've got to say: 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more.”

“We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.”

“Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.”

“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”

“The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.”

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.”

“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”