Wisdom Quotes

“You can't have your cake and eat it too.”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

“The good influence of a good man is worth more than a thousand sermons.”

“The most important thing in life is to have a good question and a love of it.”

“Say what you mean, but do not mean what you say.”

“A man's a man for a' that.”

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect.”

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever-new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“What happens to the dreamer?”

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

“The poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“A soft answer turneth away wrath.”

“The horror! The horror!”

“Truth is a lonely word.”

“The heart of the righteous studieth to answer.”

“The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.”