Wisdom Quotes

"Be as you wish to seem to be."

"No good is ever done without consequences."

"The ultimate elegance is simplicity."

"Character is revealed by choice."

"The proof of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas simultaneously."

"The greatest luxury is simplicity."

"We are not always masters of our destiny."

"We must learn to live with uncertainty."

"Suffering teaches us what joy cannot."

"Life's greatest lessons come from our failures."

"The man who always knows he is right is the man who never learns anything new."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence."

"I have found that it is a good sign when a man is not able to convince himself with his own arguments."

"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear foolish than to open it and remove all doubt."

"Noise proves nothing and often distracts from the real issues at hand."

"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment."

"A man's own heart must be the arbiter of his own life."

"Better to be a small fish in a fresh pond than a large one in a stale sea."

"Passion should always be wedded to wisdom."

"The heart knows truths that the mind can never comprehend."

"Silence often speaks louder than the loudest voice."

"There is a wisdom in the dark as well as in the light."

"What a pity, that the men who really understand the world are confined to the lunatic asylums."

"The depths of the sea are as unknown as the secrets of the human heart."

"To question authority is to honor it with respect."

"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to trivial things, how it would change everything."

"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."

"We are all silly, and folly is not to be cured by grave moralizing."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."