Wisdom Quotes

"Despair has its own calms."

"I am not evil; I am only just more wise."

"The mind's eye perceives truths the body cannot touch."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot explain."

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

"When the heart is full, the tongue is not."

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything."

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

"The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain."

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures."

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"

"I read a character immediately."

"Better be without sense than misapply it as you do."

"We are all fools in love; I cannot pretend otherwise."

"Lose not yourself on vague imaginings."

"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man."

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

"Wisdom whispers; folly shouts."

"Darkness has its own beauty and wisdom to impart."

"Passion without wisdom leads to destruction."

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

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

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

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

"I have awakened at dawn after dreaming of the Universal Mind."

"The most powerful weapon against adversity is acceptance."

"To be wise, one must learn to listen."

"The heart knows what the mind cannot comprehend."

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