What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young read more

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.

We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about read more

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.

The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.