wisdom
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
“No one is wise at all times.”
“The beginning of philosophy is the consciousness of our own weakness and inability.”
“Everything has two handles: one by which it may be borne, and one by which it may not.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“We had the experience but missed the meaning.”
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”
“Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any more clearly for doing so.”
“Poor man. Poor mankind.”
“Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.”
“One mustn't ask apples of an elm tree.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”