Wisdom Quotes

"Life's greatest lessons are often its hardest"

"A good man is hard to find."

"I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace."

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life."

"There's many a prophet been put in the ditch by folks wanting to make him stop."

"The fact is that most of us are brought low by the same experience that we are also exalted by."

"You cannot be responsible for the world that you're in. You're responsible only for your own behavior."

"The things that happen in the real world are beyond anyone's control, and yet we insist on trying to control them."

"The lesson of maturity is acceptance of what cannot be changed."

"You think because you understand one you understand two, because you understand two you understand four. But you must also understand three."

"The struggle for existence is the beginning of wisdom."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot comprehend."

"In darkness, we learn to see what truly matters."

"Understanding belongs to the reader and the listener more than to the speaker."

"Wisdom comes not from having all the answers but from understanding the questions."

"A compassionate heart is the foundation of wisdom."

"The pursuit of perfection can become a form of self-destruction."

"We repeat patterns we do not understand until we become conscious of them."

"Forgiveness is not for the other person; it is liberation for yourself."

"The thing is, you don't ever understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"It's better to be silent than waste your breath on fools."

"The beauty of growing old is the wisdom you gather along the way."

"Growing up means accepting that the world is more complicated than you thought."

"The heart often knows things the mind has not yet learned."

"Prejudice finds its roots in ignorance and fear, not in truth."

"The act of listening is often more powerful than the act of speaking."

"The so-called 'real world' will not discourage you from operating on asinine principles by which you can feel good in the moment."

"This is water."

"The so-called 'real world' is the one we create through our attention."

"The so-called 'meaning' we seek is usually the meaning we create."