Wisdom Quotes

"A wise general makes a point of enquiring whether the terrain is conducive to an ambuscade, whether it is a deathtrap, a isolated terrain, or a terrain intersected by steep ridges and valleys."

"To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it."

"Murder is a game of wits."

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

"One sees clearly only with the heart."

"What is most important is invisible to the eye."

"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 man who thinks can never be poor or destitute."

"I have learned that the heart knows things the mind cannot comprehend."

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge."

"I learned that perfection is not the goal; understanding is."

"I am no longer seeking; I am living."

"Logic cannot penetrate the veil of madness."

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind"

"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes"

"Our life is frittered away by detail"

"I love those who do not first look behind into the past before they look down at the abyss."

"Beware of those in whom the desire to punish is strong."

"The wasteland grows: woe to him who harbors wastelands within!"

"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."

"Verily, a polluted stream is man; one must be a sea to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure."

"Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey."

"I love those who do not first look behind into the past."

"Thou little prudent one, consider thy action well; it is easier to make a decision than to bear its consequences."

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

"It's not what enters men's mouths that is evil, it's what comes out of their mouths that is evil"

"Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World"

"I am not bird born, but I do know the language of the wind"