Wisdom Quotes

"I'm a prophet of the obvious, I just do it better than others."

"The way out is the way in."

"Entertainment is the death of consciousness."

"The so-called 'real world' will not discourage you from overambitious or unrealistic goals—it will destroy you."

"We rarely ask ourselves what makes life seem worth living."

"The gift of an unexamined life is that you get to blame everyone else."

"Once the moat of entertainment is drained, what's left?"

"The comfortable become invisible."

"The unexamined life isn't worth living, but neither is the overly examined one."

"What we mistake for depth is often just complexity."

"The examined life requires the courage to see yourself clearly."

"The main thing is that you have to be true to your own experience."

"What is the word for the feeling you get when you're being hyper-rational?"

"What do you do when you realize you're not the hero of the story?"

"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."

"We must accept that the world is much stranger than we believe."

"Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself."

"The mind seeks out agreeable alternatives to reality."

"Some people are worth talking to and others are not; the trick is figuring out which is which."

"The most dangerous thing in life is certainty."

"Wisdom comes from mistakes, not from avoiding them."

"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."

"We are the sum of our own choices."

"The ability to delude yourself is a wonderful thing sometimes."

"Everything I wrote was an effort to understand myself."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"A little paranoia is good for the soul."

"We're all living in a terrible age - if you know how to look at it."

"I would like to write a book about getting old."

"Silence can be more powerful than speech."