Wisdom Quotes - Page 49

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

To fly we have to have resistance.

Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

We learn from failure, not from success!

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their supply of sugar is not the amount in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has sugar in abundance. But he sees how much money you have brought and gives accordingly. Your currency on this Path is resolution and faith, and you are taught according to your resolution and faith. When you come seeking sugar, they examine your bag to see what its capacity is; then they measure out accordingly.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.