Wisdom Quotes

"You can't make omelettes without breaking eggs."

"We are all fools sometimes, the difference is that clever people profit by their mistakes."

"The simplest and most obvious truths are the hardest to see and understand."

"The world's a hard place"

"Insanity is contagious."

"A man is crazy if he worries about things he can't control."

"How much truth can the individual psyche take"

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery"

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything."

"The nice thing is to have land"

"Sex is something I really don't understand very well."

"I'm not sure what's wrong with me, that's the truth."

"Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts"

"Man cannot alter the laws of nature, but he can understand them"

"Suffering and joy are equally necessary for human life"

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."

"The supreme law is conscience."

"Kid, we're all crazy."

"I'm way ahead of you."

"They're right, but I'm not wrong."

"Lennie, you gonna do bad things"

"You jus' keep your mouth shut"

"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"So I learned to leave them alone."

"Yes, and I have seen the past, the present, and the future, and I am able to see how things always work out."

"I have become an Earthling who thinks creatures from other planets are common. I have become a human being."

"Evil is not something to be done away with as a kind of awful tumor. There is no triumph in it."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."