Wisdom Quotes

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters" "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls" "We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God." "The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves" "I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly I think is more honorable than not to judge at all " "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well" "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." "I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had." "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter" "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek" "Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness" "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish" "The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired" "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul" "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none" "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one" "Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is even in shorter supply than genius" "He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise" "The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction"