Timely Wisdom

What can be shown, cannot be said.
- Wittgenstein

Where a man can live, he can also live well.
- Marcus Aurelius

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- Confucius

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Schopenhauer

As a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
- Schopenhauer

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule,not to bewail,not to scorn human actions,but to understand them.
- Spinoza

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
- Kant

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- Machiavelli

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
- Machiavelli

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
- William James