Quotes on Wisdom

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.