Popular Quotes Through Time

Go wherever the facts lead.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear.

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

There is no learning without remembering.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.