Wisdom Quotes

"We protect what we love, and we love what we understand."

"I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

"I am not asking you to agree with me; I'm asking you to think for yourself."

"The wealth of the soul cannot be measured in dollars or possessions."

"To understand someone, you must first seek to hear their story without judgment."

"The hunger for meaning drives us more than the hunger for food."

"The mind is enslaved long before the body ever is."

"The greatest tragedy is not what we suffer, but what we accept."

"The wisdom of the ages is often found in the words of those we have been taught to ignore."

"We create meaning through our choices and our commitment to those choices."

"To understand another is to expand the boundaries of one's own consciousness."

"Language can heal or destroy; choose your words with intention."

"The past haunts us not as ghost but as teacher."

"From the earliest rocking of my cradle, I had known about the caprices of the adult world."

"The inside of a place can never be judged by the outside."

"But, are you listening?"

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

"Hatred is just a crutch for ignorance."

"Perspective is everything when you are experiencing pain."

"Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience."

"Every legend contains a grain of truth, but the legend is not the truth."

"I cannot imagine a more powerful revelation than that moment when I was forced to realize I had been looking at the world from a narrow perspective."

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

"Purpose is found through service to others."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot understand."

"Wisdom comes from listening, not speaking."

"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, but a man must try."

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

"The secret to understanding a person is not in their words but in their silences."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like a body without a soul."