Words of Wisdom

Teng Yun(滕云 )

Words of Wisdom

——The quotes that I like

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ----Socrates

Know yourself.----Socrates

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ----

Plato

I call him free who is led solely by reason.----Baruch Spinoza

Brevity is the soul of wit.---William Shakespeare

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ---Leo Tolstoy

If winter comes , can spring be far behind ? ---P. B. Shelley

Histories make men wise.---Francis Bacon

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. ---Arthur Schopenhauer

A friend is, as it were, a second self.                         ---Cicero (Ancient Roman

statesman)

No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience.

---John Locke

Custom is the great guide to human life.

---David Hume

Revaluate all values.

                        ---Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Being poor, maintain your own integrity, rich, rich the world.

（穷则独善其身 , 达则兼济天下）                        

---Mengzi（孟子）

Rules and modesty destroy genius and art.

                        ---William Hazlitt

The law is reason free from passion.

                        ---Aristotle

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

---Rabindranath Tagore

Misfortune might be a blessing in disguise.

(祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏 )                          ---Laozi(老子 )

Chilly is really good, believe me.---Teng Yun