Wisdom Quotes

"Do not mistake me for a crusader. I am but a humble observer of human nature."

"Passion without reason leads men to their doom, yet reason without passion leads to emptiness."

"Sorrow teaches what joy cannot: the true measure of human capacity."

"Conscience is the voice we silence most successfully when it troubles us most."

"The real alchemy is in transforming the base metal of experience into the gold of wisdom."

"Narrowness is a quality so apt to be mistaken for refinement."

"The only real aristocracy is intelligence."

"To understand others, we must first understand ourselves."

"There is no substitute for experience in the school of life."

"Common sense is as rare as genius."

"Woe to the man who does not know when to stop talking."

"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you cannot. So why worry?"

"You cannot be wise unless you are happy."

"The modern age suffers from an excess of information and a deficit of wisdom."

"Wisdom is knowing what you don't know."

"The mind is restless, always seeking, always unsatisfied."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, as Blake said."

"Individuality is the first requisite to intelligent living."

"Ideals are not meant to be realized; they are meant to guide us."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"Never tell your problems to anyone. Twenty percent don't care and the other eighty percent are glad you have them."

"The key to understanding life is understanding loss."

"The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves."

"A man's worth is measured not by his possessions but by his actions."

"It is not poverty that is a curse, but discontent."

"It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up."

"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

"Learn to love duty, and duty will soon become an easy yoke to bear."

"I believe in living simply and purely."

"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."