Wisdom Quotes

"I cannot let you burn me up, nor let the flame consume us both."

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

"What strange creatures we are!"

"I pay very little regard to what any young person says."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."

"Every human creature is bound to be a mystery"

"Sydney Carton was not much in the habit of thinking about such matters"

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"To define is to limit."

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"You cannot make everyone like you."

"One knows so very little of their real situation."

"Better to be without sense than to misapply it."

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

"One word of real advice: throw pride away."

"If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to be uncommon through going crooked."

"I felt that this was a time for subtlety, not strength."

"I had never thought of such a question until that moment."

"I have been a fool, but not the worst of fools."

"I came to understand that true wealth lies not in money, but in the love and respect of others."

"I have learned that the gentlemen of the world are not always the most noble of men."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him."