Wisdom Quotes

"The best thing about growing old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young, you no longer want."

"The greatest thing the old masters have to teach us is simplicity."

"The tragedy of life is that we never truly know ourselves until it's too late."

"The most destructive force is a certainty that cannot be questioned."

"The greater the expectation, the greater the inevitable disappointment."

"We cannot truly help others until we understand our own helplessness."

"Society often mistakes convention for virtue and tradition for truth."

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."

"A life without questions is a life without growth."

"Wisdom is knowing what not to say as much as what to say."

"Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes."

"The mind of a woman is as vast as the ocean and twice as deep."

"I believe that no institution is perfect, but that striving for improvement is the mark of a living soul."

"To be safe from evil, we must understand evil, and thus we must be willing to look it in the face."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails."

"I am convinced that the heart is the seat of all true wisdom."

"The world is pleasant and it's a nice thing to live in, but you mustn't expect too much of it."

"The higher processes are all processes of simplification."

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."

"I have seen more than most men in my lifetime."

"In short, what makes one individual better than another is his power of sympathizing with a greater range of possibilities."

"I am not more mad than Aristotle or Socrates."

"A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

"The happiest man is he who learns from the humblest things around him."

"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober."

"The errors of a wise man make your rule rather than the perfection of a fool."

"There is nobility in simplicity and wisdom in humility."

"The heart knows truths that reason cannot comprehend."

"The mind is a vast territory; what we plant there grows without limit."