Wisdom Quotes

"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons." "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing." "In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart." "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." "There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head." "You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say." "Every blessing ignored becomes a curse." "Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." "The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them." "All you have to do is pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready." "When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision." "Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant." "Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life." "It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning." "Life isn’t how many breaths you take, but it’s the moments that take your breath away." "Mistakes are inevitable, but it's how we respond to them that defines our character." "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people" "We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one" "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time"