Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Think globally, act locally.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.