Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either

Wisdom is the daughter of experience