Quotes on Wisdom

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.