Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?  Socrates quotes If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. Soren Kierkegaard quotes The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Sallust quotes I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. George Santayana quotes Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. John Kenneth Galbraith quotes Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. Kahlil Gibran quotes The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it? John D. Rockefeller quotes A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift quotes Wealth and children are the adornment of life. Koran quotes We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Louis D. Brandeis quotes | 
