Wisdom Quotes

"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and start a war is to astonish them by exhibiting fission bomb, or especially, to let an ass talk."

"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience will always remain words, clever perhaps and false."

"There is only one way to be comfortable in an uncomfortable world."

"Beware of the man who makes no mistakes."

"The privilege of growing old is an opportunity for wisdom."

"The end of all wisdom is charity."

"Silence is sometimes the safest answer."

"The higher processes are all processes of simplification."

"One realizes that even the simplest things in life are interesting if one only observes them with enough attention."

"One cannot have even a very pleasant dream without paying for it."

"The world is always full of stories, but we must be careful not to interrupt the living to speak of the dead."

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent more clearly."

"The miracles of the world are not diminished by our understanding of the world."

"The solution to problems does not delete the problems; it creates new ones."

"The ability to laugh at oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"We can never be satisfied with simple answers to complex problems."

"A truly wise person never gives advice, but they do share their experience."

"How did you go bankrupt? Two ways: gradually, then suddenly."

"We are all broken, that is how the light gets in."

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools."

"When you're young you think everything that happens is because of something you do."

"A man learns what he needs to know by the time he's dead."

"The most interesting people are those who have suffered deeply."

"You cannot make people understand something they are not ready to understand."

"A man may have lived all of his life in the dark, but he can still recognize light."

"The best time to listen is when you think you know everything."

"First think, then speak your thoughts."

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

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple man."

"Wisdom whispers while ignorance shouts."