"Abundance of knowledge does not teach men..." - Quote by Heraclitus

“Learning many things does not teach understanding”

“If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.”

“We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.”

“A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.”

“We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.”

“To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?”

“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.”

“True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.”

“Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.”