Wisdom Quotes

"It is the clash of judgments that produces the spark of truth." "It is foolish to wish for beauty Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others" "The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it." "No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals." "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." "There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." "It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak." "The true hero is the one who conquers his own anger and hatred." "The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end." "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." "The role of the storyteller is to regenerate the past so that it might deliver its message for the present moment" "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other" "People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools." "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."