Wisdom Quotes

"The greatest truth is also the simplest thing."

"When we stop judging, we start understanding."

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

"There is a terrible delight in watching a creature who has been living in darkness emerge into the light."

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

"To have in general but little feeling seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."

"We are all born in moral stupidity."

"Men must have character before they can have knowledge."

"If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst."

"In the ill-judged execution of well-meant plans lies the chief tragedy."

"The most accomplished fact cannot shade the most prospective theory."

"He who knows not when to yield, knows not when to conquer."

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does is to see something."

"A practical philosopher knows when to be silent."

"In grief there is wisdom, though it is a wisdom bought with pain."

"The most profound truths are often the simplest."

"I am a believer in the old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"Believe nothing you hear, and half of what you see."

"I have witnessed the folly of humanity."

"Wisdom comes from lived experience."

"Get done whatever you have to get done, then retire to your inner self."

"For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent."

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

"Every moment of pain brings wisdom."

"That is no country for the young—nor for the old, but for the in-between."

"The human heart is a mystery even unto itself."

"Knowledge without feeling is mere empty philosophy."

"To understand all is to forgive all."

"Time heals nothing, but we learn to live with our scars."

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."