Famous Quotes

"I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes."

"Fools, their wisdom weak,are their own enemiesas they go through life,doing evilthat bearsbitter fruit."

"End of a matter is better than its beginning"

"When you love you give meaning to this world."

"It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas."

"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."

"Morality is the weakness of the mind."

"It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough."

"No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests."

"Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language."

"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on."

"We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

"Wise men speak only of what they know"

"We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder"

"Leave no stone unturned."

"Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom."

"A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there."

"Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children"

"Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end."

"Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger."

"The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized."