49 Quotes by Ivan Panin

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.