Wisdom Quotes

"Life is and will always be a succession of mistakes, and he who makes the fewest is your friend."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The same principles cannot be applied to all men."

"To understand nature's secrets, one must observe patiently and think deeply."

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

"The highest stage of moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

"Every one knows that there is a great tendency in the mind to exaggerate small differences into great ones."

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

"Time is the greatest teacher, if we have the patience to listen."

"I have learned that true wealth lies in knowledge, not in material possessions."

"The universe speaks to those who are willing to listen with open minds."

"The world is made of fragments, of broken things."

"The world does not come in neat categories."

"The world is made of relations, not things."

"We must attend to the ordinary, to the everyday."

"We must attend to the margins."

"We are not defined by our circumstances, but by how we choose to respond to them."

"The heart knows what the mind struggles to understand."

"What we resist persists; what we accept can transform."

"Woman is not the object of culture; she is a subject, a producer of culture."

"Difference is not deficiency; it is a generative force."

"We must resist the temptation to reduce complexity to simplicity."

"Difference is not something to be overcome but something to be negotiated."

"We must learn to live with uncertainty and ambiguity."

"We are not outside observers of the world; we are part of it."

"We must learn to think with matter, not just about it."

"The world exceeds our categories and frameworks."

"Reflexivity without reflexes is empty."

"We must become response-able to the world."

"The world speaks to us through the traces of our intra-actions."