Wisdom Quotes

"I would always rather weep than rage: to see, to know causes more suffering than to imagine wildly."

"I have found that I need to be very careful about the truths I speak."

"The supreme wisdom consists of knowing oneself."

"Wisdom is a sacred communion."

"To attack by stratagem is more profitable than to attack by storm."

"Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being deserted in the pursuit of a cherished object."

"Stupidity is something unshakeable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it."

"The great souls are rare; mediocrity is the rule."

"The greatest genius is the greatest madness."

"To change one's mind is to become twice as wise."

"In every mediocre soul there lives the ghost of a great one."

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

"The mind is everything; what you think, you become."

"Wisdom comes from experience and reflection."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"A human may be wretched, but he is never despicable."

"Nothing can soften the cruelty of fate."

"Seek some means of diverting your thoughts."

"I have wandered too far into realms that should remain unknown."

"How terrible is the pursuit of knowledge without wisdom."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"I have sustained a character which requires all the wisdom I can muster."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."

"All the world is grist to the mill of the wise man."

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

"Knowledge without compassion is merely the accumulation of facts."