Quotes on Wisdom

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.