Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Mysterious language is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person is, the simpler the language he uses to express his thoughts.

All conditioned things are impermanent-when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government.