[ Famous Quotes ] Wisdom

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

William James

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them.

Francis Bacon

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Seneca the Younger