Wisdom Quote by Walter M. Miller Jr. — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.”

“Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I" was the converse of the imperial "We.”

“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.”

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.”

“There are two ways to be rich.”

“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]”

“Anxiety, trauma and crisis are necessary catalysts to stimulate self-consciousness.”

“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”

“My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.”