Wisdom Quotes

"It is our passions that move us, but only our intelligence that leads us."

"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice."

"We rarely know what we see, but we always see what we know."

"Beware of pity. It is not a good emotion; it is the most humiliating of all."

"Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life."

"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."

"We must learn to accept ourselves before we can truly love another."

"Negative capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."

"Call the world if you please the vale of soul-making."

"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."

"The child is father of the man."

"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

"The shortest of roads to wisdom is through humility."

"Sorrow is the great teacher of mankind."

"The fountain of wisdom flows from the heart."

"Wisdom whispers where ambition shouts."

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

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

"The deepest rivers make the least noise."

"Common sense is the genius of mankind."

"The pursuit of perfection will only bring you misery."

"Sorrow is the child of too much heart"

"What is the end of fame"

"The great object of life is sensation, not suffering"

"The great object of life is sensation and not suffering"

"The great object of life is sensation, the greatest evil is insensibility"

"The great object of life is sensation, rightly comprehended"

"The great object of life is sensation and the pursuit of truth"

"The great object of life is sensation, not mere existence or survival"

"I am malicious because I am miserable."