Wisdom Quotes

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

"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

"A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

"There is no sin except stupidity."

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches."

"It is the mind that makes the body rich."

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

"Wisdom comes with age, but it doesn't always show up to the party."

"In the particular is contained the universal."

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

"To be silent is not to be dumb."

"He understood at last the meaning of the old word sacrifice."

"The human heart is like Indian rubber; a little touch of metaphysics won't compass its rise or fall."

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot comprehend."

"The heart's wisdom often contradicts the mind's logic."

"The disease of feeling that the world is against you is a common malady of the human heart."

"We are all walking contradictions, containing multitudes of opposing impulses."

"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot articulate."

"The greatest deception is self-deception, and we are all experts in it."

"We become what we pretend to be for long enough, so we must be careful of our masks."

"The heart's wisdom is often at odds with the mind's logic."

"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence."

"The key to all knowledge is in the heart that is teachable."

"Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. It is a subtle sophism that mistake."

"The most irremediable of mistakes is one by which we have injured a person already distressed."