Wisdom Quotes

"Conformity becomes a problem only when it extends from behavior to belief."

"Independence is not the absence of social influence, but awareness of it."

"We underestimate our own capacity for independent thought and overestimate others' certainty."

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."

"Feelings are not facts."

"Pity a person who must always maintain their superiority."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"We are very often arrogant in thinking we understand the future."

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."

"We are all capable of becoming perpetrators or heroic resisters depending on the social situation we find ourselves in."

"We each have the capacity to be both victim and perpetrator in different circumstances."

"We should be less interested in who is bad and more interested in what systems create bad behavior."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"The only true virtue is knowing oneself."

"The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he finds in men. Ordinary people find no difference in men."

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"We know the truth not only by reason but also by the heart."

"Virtue is its own reward."

"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"The secret of being boring is to say everything."

"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."

"Reason commands us much more often than authority."

"True listening is the beginning of all understanding."

"What can be shown, cannot be said."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door that he does not see."

"The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity."

"Forget all theory, keep only what you can practice."

"The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

"The same proposition can be described in different ways."