Wisdom Quote by Sophocles — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”

“Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.”

“A lie never grows old.”

“And if you think I've acted foolishly, maybe I'm being charged with folly by a fool.”

“What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted”

“Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.”

“We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.”

“The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.”

“To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.”

“Some mountains require a level of detail in understanding what the spirit is saying, which is called faith, wisdom and understanding.”

“I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.”