“Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.”
Wendell Phillips
“I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.”
Hinton Helper
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck
“But we who are wisershut ourselves inon either handand no one knowswhether we think goodor evil.”
William Carlos Williams
“He did indicate that he's an older person, that he's learned more, that he thinks he's a wiser person and he has a better grasp and understanding about constitutional rights and liberties.”
Edward Kennedy
“Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him”
Walter Savage Landor