Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

We can be born thus more than once

Life is like one big blueprint, if you don't make plans then your future will not be built

Getting rich is not real and staying rich is real.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.