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Wisdom Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and…
- "What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
- Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain
- All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
- A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big…
- My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
- I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life,…
- If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
- Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
- Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of…
- Houses are full of things that gather dust
- The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
- Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
- If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with…
- Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
- Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
- Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.
- The only truth is music.
- One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
- I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
- And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
- What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
- I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I…
- Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'…
- All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold