Wisdom Quotes

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

Took me a while to realize that it’s only after breaking completely some parts of us completely fixes.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Pain is inevitable. It’s how we choose to heal that matters.

Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.

Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.