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Wisdom Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
- Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless.…
- Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of…
- We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,…
- We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,…
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