Wisdom Quotes

"Don't assume, because you grow old, you also grow wise."

"The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"Sorrow is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

"The lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul."

"When you're in bed, you're dead anyway. It's a good way to think about it."

"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish."

"One must find the source within oneself."

"Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom."

"I have learned to listen with my whole being."

"The secret of life is to fall in love with the process, not the prize"

"The treasure you are seeking is in the very thing you are running from"

"The wise understand that all things serve the evolution of the world"

"Your heart knows desires of which you are unaware"

"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life"

"Somewhere in your heart, you already know what you must do"

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it."

"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes."

"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You remain responsible forever for what you've tamed."

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly."

"What is most important is invisible."

"The conceited man never hears anything but praise."

"Grown-ups love figures."

"I ought not to have listened to her. One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their scent."

"The fact of his own unimportance never occurred to him."

"I should have guessed all these secrets from behind such a simple question!"

"The drunkard drinks that he may forget he is ashamed."