Wisdom Quotes

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Mysterious language is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person is, the simpler the language he uses to express his thoughts.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

Read less, study less, but think more.

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.