Wisdom Quotes

"Despair is the only one of the vices which was not incorporated into the system of human nature."

"Sorrow is but a wall between two gardens."

"The world is so full of different people that one learns to view one's neighbors at a great distance."

"The greatest magic is simplicity."

"The past is only evil if we fail to learn from it."

"The human heart is a great mystery."

"There is a capacity in human nature for virtue."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge."

"The source of all our sorrows is not the suffering itself, but our resistance to it."

"Not all that glitters is gold, nor all that frowns is misfortune."

"In madness, there is genius; in sadness, there is wisdom."

"Trust thyself."

"Our life is not so much threatened as our perception."

"We see only what we are ready to comprehend."

"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom."

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

"Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye."

"Surgeons must be very careful when they take the knife."

"The truth I do not dare to know I murmur as I go."

"I measure every Grief I meet with analytic eyes."

"To fill a Gap insert the Thing that caused it."

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

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

"Wisdom comes with age."

"There are few things more painful than to recognize where one's taste is inferior to one's ability."

"Keep all your passions, always in check."

"To take what there is and use it, without wait for the perfect."

"Consciousness was what the world was waiting for."

"What is character but the determination of incident?"

"It is simple: always see and be silent."