Wisdom Sayings

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

People are afraid of the truth, of real love, of being loved.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

I am quite content to pay the price. Let the Irish be the first to understand that I am a free man.

The human face is the most astounding and the most grotesque of all objects in the world.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I’m glad I don’t have to live over again. I don’t want to. It’s a bore.

The problem with our country is that there are too many people who think they know everything and too few who actually do.

Reality is not always probable, or necessary.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air – Between the Heaves of Storm –