Wisdom Quotes by Victor Hugo

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

— Victor Hugo

“CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES”

— Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

— Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

— Victor Hugo

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

— Victor Hugo

We are for religion against the religions.

— Victor Hugo

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

— Victor Hugo

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

— Victor Hugo

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

— Victor Hugo

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

— Victor Hugo

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

— Victor Hugo

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

— Victor Hugo

“Words being but a breath, the stir of awakened minds is like the rustling of leaves.”

— Victor Hugo

“But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.”

— Victor Hugo

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

— Victor Hugo

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a…

— Victor Hugo

“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."…

— Victor Hugo

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly…

— Victor Hugo

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of…

— Victor Hugo

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

— Victor Hugo

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

— Victor Hugo

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than…

— Victor Hugo

“With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is…

— Victor Hugo

“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is…

— Victor Hugo

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom

— Victor Hugo

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

— Victor Hugo

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

— Victor Hugo

“CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.”

— Victor Hugo

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

— Victor Hugo

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

— Victor Hugo

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

— Victor Hugo

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

— Victor Hugo

What makes night within us may leave stars.

— Victor Hugo

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

— Victor Hugo

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

— Victor Hugo

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

— Victor Hugo

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo