Wisdom Quotes

"It is a riddle that matters, not the answer."

"The thing that counts is not what we possess, but what we are."

"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups and I have seen them intimately."

"It matters very much which sheep it is."

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves."

"The aching heart knows what the restless mind seeks."

"I have learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, to strive, to suffer, to fail and to despair in order to become childlike again"

"One can indulge the flesh or one can mortify it; both are paths, but the middle way is what leads to enlightenment"

"Perhaps all the things that here deceive me, that I hate and fight against, are good and that I only need to love them"

"Every sin already carries grace within it"

"The greatest gift is to understand that everyone is on their own path"

"Your heart is wise; you should listen to what it says."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"You will live badly if you obey your passions; you will live well if you obey reason."

"The only wealth that is valuable is the wisdom of the soul."

"The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small."

"What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt."

"The higher man may sacrifice himself for others, but he must not become their slave."

"Beware of small men who seek revenge."

"The most powerful and longest-enduring revenge is to advance oneself beyond one's enemies."

"The noble soul has reverence for itself."

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"We live meanly, like ants; but the moment a man begins to cherish higher thoughts, he becomes instantly nobler and greater."

"One world at a time."

"I am convinced that to maintain oneself on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely."

"Any man who takes himself too seriously is in danger, constant danger of losing his sense of proportion."

"Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated."

"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill."