Popular Quotes

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."

"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom."

"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."

"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise."

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

"If you want to go east, don't go west."

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."

"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."

"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."

"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh."

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"