Wisdom Quotes

"The best lessons come from the most unexpected places." "The purpose of life is to find our gift. The meaning of life is to give it away." "The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice." "Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being" "Where wisdom reigns there is no conflict between thinking and feeling" "Mistakes are after all the foundations of truth and if a man does not know what a thing is it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not" "A real education includes the knowledge of values, the beauty of nature, and the importance of human dignity." "If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything" "The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way" "I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." "The wiser the man, the more doubts he has." "The good of a book lies in its being read." "Love is wiser than wisdom." "There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart " "A journey never ends. Only travelers end." "To love is to think." "If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before" "The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God" "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out " "Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell "