Wisdom Quotes

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

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"Suffering is a gift that teaches us compassion."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."

"The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself."

"The worst vice is advice."

"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."

"Angry people are not always wise."

"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

"It has not been your way to observe closely."

"I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit."

"The punishment of my wickedness, I suppose."

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated"

"The heart knows what the mind refuses to accept"

"It is the unloving that suffer most under the weight of their own hearts"

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

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

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."

"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends."

"Bitterness is a poison we drink expecting it to kill our enemy."

"Vengeance is a circle that never ends."

"Regret is a heavy burden to carry."

"I have learned that revenge tastes bitter on the tongue."