Quotes on Wisdom

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Everything is hard before it is easy.