Wisdom Quotes

"Let me not be hasty in my judgment."

"I would as soon have a mind without a heart as a heart without a mind."

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

"Perhaps it is better to be silent than to be ridiculous."

"You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of prudence."

"Redemption begins the moment we choose compassion over judgment."

"Of penance I have had enough. Of penitence too, I had enough!"

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"I try all things, I achieve what I can; therefore I am content."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words—'Wait and hope.'"

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another."

"Great expectations indeed became great disappointments."

"My expectations had blinded me to truth."

"I sought to be someone I was not meant to be."

"Forgiveness begins with understanding one's own failings."

"I learned to value substance over appearance."

"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?"

"You cannot make everyone like you, any more than you can make the sun shine every day."

"Perhaps I was too hasty in my judgment."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."

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

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"What a strange thing is prejudice."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words—Wait and Hope."

"The world judged me harshly, but I do not judge the world."

"Vanity and pride have been the ruin of more men than goodness has saved."

"I have suffered greatly, and therefore I understand suffering."

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

"What a noble thing is toleration"