Wisdom Quotes

"We must have standards, otherwise how do we know what is good?"

"The moment of understanding arrives without announcement."

"To understand another is to extend mercy to oneself."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot grasp."

"Wisdom comes from lived experience."

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, nothing to do with it but pass it on to your kids."

"It is a mistake to think that there is no middle ground between despair and elation."

"Progress does not mean that we eliminate the old in favor of the new."

"Seeing is of course very much a question of training."

"We cannot listen to the past, it is silent."

"I have known the eye of the storm, and from it came wisdom."

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world."

"We are all enlightened, just have to realize it."

"The world is full of fragments and we must piece them together."

"The heart knows truths the mind cannot grasp."

"The mind is an enchanting thing."

"Restraint is the only thing that saves."

"Feeling and reason must work together to create meaning."

"Modesty and accuracy often go together."

"Experience is not what happens to you but what you do with what happens."

"There is no confusion more confusing than the confusion of the simple."

"Verbosity leads to unclear language."

"Reticence is a virtue."

"Nothing is so hard as to understand the simple."

"The depths of feeling must be protected by restraint."

"The mind of winter sees all things without sentimentality."

"Genius is the ability to see the familiar as if it were strange."

"Words are composed of syllables, syllables of sounds, and sounds of silence."

"The greatest truth may be that which we have not yet imagined."

"The simplest things reveal the deepest meanings."