wisdom

"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

"Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized."

"I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them."

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."

"One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error."

"Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be."

"In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

"I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win;Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within."

"The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about."

"Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise"

"It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong."

"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself."

"Life, it’s made up of two things—time and love. A watch tells one, but what tells the other? We tell each other."