Wise and witty quotes

I love quotes that say so much using just a few words. Hope you like this selection that I’ve compiled for you.

“The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” — Henri Bergson


 “Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

— A. A. Milne


 “The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.”— Bertrand Russell

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” — Winston Churchill

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”— Carl Jung

“We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”

— Sigmund Freud


“A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” — B.F. Skinner

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” — Joseph Campbell

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”— Sigmund Freud

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.”— Ashleigh Reed

“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”— Bertrand Russell

“Adventure must start with running away from home.”

— William Bolitho

Linda Sapadin, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice who specializes in helping people overcome self-defeating patterns of behavior. She is the author of 6 self-help books on conquering debilitating fear and chronic procrastination.