Wisdom Quotes

"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one" "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none" "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul" "The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired" "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish" "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." "It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path" "We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well." "One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake." "Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years." "The more refined one is, the more unhappy" "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards" "Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced" "The more I learn about the universe, the more I learn about how much I don't know" "There is nothing permanent except change" "Much learning does not teach understanding" "Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who only know what to think" "Our patience will achieve more than our force" "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."