#wisdom

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

And if we preserve this in every action, we shall enter upon the action with greater safety.

For to that which once exceeds a due measure, there is no bound.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

The ancient masters were profound and subtle. Their wisdom was unfathomable.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

The soul demands your folly; not your wisdom.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

He is wisest among you who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

I am wiser than this man; for neither of us appears to know anything great and good, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I neither know nor think that I know.

Real wisdom is the property of the divine, and human wisdom has little or no value.

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; for it is to think that one knows what one does not know.