Dante Alighieri Quotes

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it.

We can’t be what we don’t know.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Know thyself.