“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”
Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
“The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”