Wisdom Quotes

"One can never be too careful in the selection of one's enemies."

"The deeper he went, the more he learned of the wildness of life."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The world needs more women with sense and fewer with sensibility."

"Intelligence without compassion becomes tyranny."

"A stitch in time may have nine fellows."

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something."

"The only real thing is feeling."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why few people engage in it."

"I have learned that people are not always what they seem."

"The world needs more men who think before they speak."

"To understand life, one must live it fully and without fear."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"

"I like a thing simple but it must be simple through subtlety."

"Things are important if they happen in your neighborhood."

"It is usually the way with things that you find it out too late."

"If it is not necessary to do it, it is necessary not to do it."

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."

"The greatest wisdom often comes from acknowledging our own ignorance."

"There are moments when one's life seems to crystallize into a single point of understanding."

"Awakening to one's true self is the beginning of authentic living."

"Life demands that we examine our deepest convictions."

"We must learn to trust our instincts, for they often know more than our reason."

"We become ourselves through the choices we make, however difficult."

"Love and duty need not always align, and accepting this is the beginning of wisdom."

"We grow through the discomfort of self-awareness."

"To accept oneself is to begin the work of becoming oneself."

"To know oneself is to recognize both one's power and one's limitations."

"Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing."