Wisdom Quotes

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"We must listen to the better angels of our nature."

"The heart knows truths that reason cannot grasp."

"Wisdom comes from reflecting on our experiences with honest eyes."

"Finish each day and be done with it."

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"What we resist persists."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer, he posses one which generates more and more questions."

"There is a tendency in things to right themselves and wise men work with the tendency, not against it."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"The mind is the master of the body, and through it alone can we achieve true liberty."

"Innovation without principle is merely destruction dressed in new clothes."

"The greatest wisdom often comes from those deemed foolish by society."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason."

"A man's inability to choose is not an indecision—it is a statement of the impossibility."

"In darkness we find what light cannot reveal."

"The peculiar strength of sorrow lies in its universality."

"Some things are best discovered by accident."

"To be great, one must first know oneself."

"One thing I have learned is that it is very hard to make folks understand things they do not want to understand."

"Conceit spoils the finest genius."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"We are not creators, but discoverers of truth."

"The deepest truths are often hidden in the simplest sayings."

"The humble are often wiser than those who believe themselves great."

"Learn to see, and thousands of things will be revealed to you."

"There is no greater teacher than adversity."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"The greatest delight is in the exchange of ideas."