Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Time wounds all heels.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.