Quotes on “wisdom”

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

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

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.