Wisdom Quotes

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a Law.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.