Wisdom Quotes

"Pity the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous."

"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."

"The human species is made up of two sexes: men and women."

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

"Wisdom is knowing what you do not know."

"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."

"We must learn to live with paradox and contradiction."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

"We must learn to see with the eyes of those we do not understand."

"We are shaped far more by our doubts than our certainties."

"We must learn to live with the tension between hope and despair."

"The mind is a servant, but the heart is a master."

"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."

"The cooking goose hisses in the pot when it realizes it is being cooked, but it is too late."

"It is not so much what goes in the mouth as what comes out that matters."

"It is better to understand one thing than to misunderstand ten."

"The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not care."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas and function anyway."

"Suffering is the price of consciousness in a world of pain."

"Forgiveness is not a virtue; it's an acceptance of defeat."

"Knowledge is burden; wisdom is knowing which burdens to carry."

"The great thing is to be saturated with something—that is the point. The more a thing is saturated, the more it counts."

"Disappointment, when it comes, is often of one's own making."

"Knowledge without wisdom is a burden; wisdom without knowledge is empty."

"Wisdom is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"The human heart is capable of every contradiction at once."

"The most profound lessons come disguised as trivial events."

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

"The real art of conversation is not in speaking, but in listening."

"Desire is a powerful force, but understanding is greater still."