Wisdom Quotes

"Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!"

"Pity is a thing to be ashamed of."

"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind"

"Revenge only deepens the wounds which misery inflicts"

"I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement."

"The fog was more blinding than the night."

"Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions."

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"The pursuit of truth requires great courage."

"How can you expect clarity in that kind of life?"

"I think it is the most dangerous thing in every way one can think of."

"I have nothing to say in the ordinary sense."

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages."

"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent that sting you, as mine have been."

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"The brain may work without the heart, but the heart cannot work without the brain"

"I think the knowledge of what one does not know is the beginning of wisdom"

"I have become what I am because I understood nothing"

"It was so simple."

"You know what the first rule of the Tralfamadorian test is?"

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

"Beware of false prophets."

"Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?"

"The beast is part of us."

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"I have devoted myself to science and yet I have neglected the science of life."

"Seek not happiness in tranquility alone; active virtue is required."