“The simplest things are often the truest.”
Wise feeling
Wise Quotes — page 128 of 916
“Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again”
“There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.”
“You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.”
“To ask the proper question is half of knowing.”
“True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.”
“To know and not to do is not yet to know.”
“Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.”
“Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.”
“Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.”
“I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
“There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.”
“It's not necessary to tell all you know.”
“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.”
“People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.”
“A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.”
“Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.”
“Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.”
“Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.”
“No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .”