Wisdom Quote by William Saroyan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.”

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.”

“Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine.”

“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and tot ake the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.”

“اصحاب العقول الواقفة عند حرفية النص-قرانا وسنة- كثيرا ما تفلت منهم المقاصد والمنافع فيمشون على وجوههم”

“[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]”

“No one, from pontiffs to professors, has a monopoly on the truth. In the end, we are all just travelers--not scientists or mystics or any one brand of thinker. By nature, we are scientists and mystics, reductionists and holists, left-brained and right-brained, mixed up creatures trying to catch an occasional glimpse of the truth. The best we can do is to be tolerant of both sides of our nature--knowing that these reflect the twin aspect of the universe--and learn from whatever wisdom is offered.”