Wisdom Quotes

"It is so simple. So you think that is the main thing I have to tell you?"

"You can't understand. How could you? —with solid pavement under your feet"

"The most important thing I have ever learned is that falling down is not a disgrace."

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"One man's meat is another man's poison."

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."

"Farewell, Walton. Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."

"Yossarian was not crazy and could be grounded."

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

"Make your soul grow."

"It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up."

"It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant but not to show off."

"I am not romantic. I think real nice fellows are scarce and I don't intend to throw myself away."

"Conceit spoils the finest genius."

"Poverty has its thorns as well as its roses."

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"We must not be shallow in our judgments."

"We are born into a world of shadows and light."

"The pursuit of immortality corrupts the soul."

"The world is not as it seems to be."

"I don't take no stock in dead people"

"Goodness had nothing to do with it"

"Kings is mostly rapscallions"

"I have this disease late in life. It's like bad fever thoughts."

"Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so."

"Conceit spoils the finest genius."

"We are all frail and foolish."

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"It is only a small thing, but it may lead to something greater."

"We cannot direct the storm, but we can prepare for it."