Wisdom Quote by Patti Smith — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.”

“Everything comes down so pasteurized”

“I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”

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

“When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.”

“Wisdom occurs when intelligence and experience combine into an effective and coherent spontaneous expression”