Literature is the voice of the human heart..

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter….

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pa….

And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise….

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence..

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of th….

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel..

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something us….

Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody ….

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!.

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice..

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult..

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst..

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another..

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderne….

You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself..

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice..

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish….

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody..

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, th….