Wisdom Library
Fifty great minds from East and West. Start with a quotation, then follow it to the thinker and their books.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Knowledge without action is madness, and action without knowledge is in vain.
To study the self is to forget the self.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
We ought not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes.
The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Truth does not contradict truth; it agrees with it and bears witness to it.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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