Wisdom Quotes

"When scholars and critics speak harshly, they often speak from places of pain."

"We are all capable of both good and evil; the question is which we choose to cultivate."

"Suffering often opens doors that happiness keeps locked."

"The heart knows truths that reason cannot comprehend."

"The aging process teaches us that we were never as important as we believed."

"We judge others by their actions but ourselves by our intentions."

"Every person carries within them an untold story of suffering and grace."

"All life comes down to the matter of attention"

"Every moment is a choice to grow or to diminish"

"To understand the world, one must not be too eager to explain it."

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

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

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes."

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."

"What an elder sees sitting down, a youth cannot see standing up."

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain shelter and clothing."

"Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer; he possesses the self-control not to answer at all."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time."

"It is not the facts that guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts."

"Do not interest yourself in brevity when you should be interested in depth."

"Do not choose; it is a vice."

"Envy is a littleness of soul which cannot see beyond a certain point."

"Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can contain."

"Some of the richest joys of life bloom from the soil of sorrow."

"We are all shadows of our better selves."

"Affliction is often the path to a deeper understanding of life."

"The only real failure in life is the one from which we learn nothing."