Wisdom

If human society loses the value of justice, compassion, and honesty, the next generation will face greater difficulties and more suffering.

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

As concerning the things whereof thou asked me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924).

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

I'm more haunted by how what I've said and the things I've done have caused harm to myself and others than I am worried that God will punish me for being bad. Because in the end, we aren't punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

If you can't open it, it's not your door. So, don't force it.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

You can’t translate somethingthat was never in a languagein the first place.

Your words are like mirrors. They may cut, but they also reflect.

You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.

Racism does not need to be fixed.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk.

When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.