Wisdom Quotes

"Anything is good if it's in the middle."

"The ultimate of thought is to yield to intuition."

"The only true failure is the one from which you do not learn."

"I have had forty years of hard experience in handling all sorts of human beings."

"Desperate times require not desperate measures, but desperate wisdom."

"We must learn to see the world with the eyes of the oppressed."

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time."

"Hell is oneself."

"One does not so much arrive at a decision as become aware of it."

"The modern world thinks of giving opinions as a form of taking part in the world's compensations."

"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

"The test of a mature human being is his ability to communicate with people very different from himself."

"To arrive where you started, you must follow a circuitous route."

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

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."

"The body remembers what the mind forgets."

"The heart knows truths that logic cannot reach."

"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"Hell is the hell of making the same mistakes again and again."

"The wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water molds itself to the pitcher."

"The best advice is not always the simplest."

"The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say and a wise man knows whether or not to say it."

"If it can be done, why do it?"

"There is no answer, and I am an answer."

"Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

"All this I know but it is not interesting."

"The greatest thing that can happen to a man is to discover his own conscience."

"The only way to truly understand a problem is to see it for yourself."

"When we understand what people are really thinking and feeling, we can help them to be better."