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Victor Hugo Quotes about Wisdom

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Political, Politics

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Victor Hugo
Wise, Wisdom, Men

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Victor Hugo
Love, Relationship, Wisdom

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo
Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Victor Hugo
Love, Wisdom, Stills
Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Men, Ignorant

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Victor Hugo
Life, Wisdom, Follow Your Heart

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Deeds, Masters
Victor Hugo, A. Baillot, Alfred Barbou (1892*). “Victor Hugo's Works”

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Victor Hugo
Suicide, Wisdom, Desire
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.13478, Delphi Classics

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Thinking, Tongue
Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.8

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Balance, Harmony
"Ninety-Three". Book by Victor Hugo, Book VII, Chapter V, 1874.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Men, Pockets
Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.68

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Vices, Veils

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Being Free, Poverty

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Weight, Conscience
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5899, Delphi Classics

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Victor Hugo
Life, Wisdom, Real
Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo
God, Wisdom, Prayer
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Spring, Flower
Victor Hugo “The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo”

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Struggle, Action

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Adversity, Men

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Men, Conscience

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Men, Degrees
Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Toilers of the Sea”, p.82, Wildside Press LLC

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Memories, Imagination

What makes night within us may leave stars.

Victor Hugo
Inspirational, Uplifting, Wisdom
Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.79, Mondial

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Soul

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