Wisdom Quotes

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed" "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." "The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived." "Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living." "A wise man never loses anything if he has himself." "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." "Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face." "The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." "The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire" "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present " "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do " "I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? " "All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle" "Read in order to live" "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times" "The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be" "I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends will call it" "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others" "Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see"