Wisdom Quotes

"I had been looking for myself in the wrong places."

"Sometimes the smallest gesture can illuminate the greatest truths."

"Memory can be both a blessing and a curse."

"The burden of consciousness is often heavier than ignorance."

"I had confused the map with the territory."

"The pursuit of recognition often obscures true self-knowledge."

"Perhaps the most important journey is the inward one."

"I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really—one has to ask oneself—what dignity is there in that?"

"I find myself in a rather weak position to mediate in other people's affairs."

"These matters require a proper sense of perspective."

"Perhaps I have been guilty of misjudging a situation."

"One cannot afford to examine one's motives too closely."

"One must accept the hand one has been dealt."

"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."

"You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs."

"If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does, I would pison him."

"It's enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."

"That is just the way with some people; they get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it."

"I just expected he wouldn't know nothing about it."

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."

"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions."

"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"

"One must descend to ascend."

"Better never means better for everyone, of course. It always means worse, for some."

"You can't help it. None of us can help it. It's in the nature of things."

"Expect nothing."

"People is always doing wrong."

"Anything you do to us, we already know. But what you do to yourself, nobody know but you."

"A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has"

"The mind that has rejected the moral universe tends to see chaos everywhere."