Wisdom Quotes

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

"Doing good is the best reward."

"We must learn from our mistakes."

"How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"What was the use?"

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"The child-brain of the New World can aid the wisdom-worn experience of the Old"

"We are all sinners in some way"

"The night brings counsel to those who dare to listen"

"Looky here—it ain't what a man does, it's what a man is that counts."

"The wounded heart teaches us the most."

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

"A woman's face must not be her only beauty."

"Dont you feel that it is pleasanter to help one another, to have daily duties which make leisure sweet?"

"The most important thing I've learned here is that every person has to love every moment of life because those moments will never happen again."

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

"My suffering left me sad and gloomy."

"Everything you see in life is only the tip of the iceberg."

"Numbers alone do not interest me."

"My loss became my greatest teacher."

"It ain't lightning, it's heat lightning"

"I don't think secret societies are very nice things."

"Life is short, and we haven't much time for gladdening the hearts of those we love."

"I should like to see you a lovely woman, with a good man's love and respect."

"Being angry never helps one to study or write."

"Life is misery and slavery"

"Acceptance is not surrender."

"When a man is drowning in the rapids, he is not grateful for a cup of water."

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no?"

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."