Quotes on “wisdom”

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.