Wisdom Quote by John Steinbeck — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.”

“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost”

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”

“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?”

“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try”

“Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”

“The fundamental challenge of ancient man was to be wise. The fundamental challenge of medieval man was to be holy. The fundamental challenge of modern man was to be effective. The fundamental challenge of contemporary man is not to be ridiculous.”

“He who seeks revenge digs two graves; he who walks away builds a palace of peace.”

“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

“And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!”