It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

—Marcel Proust

About Marcel Proust

Portrait of Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things...

More quotations from Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

—Marcel Proust

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

—Marcel Proust

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

—Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

—Marcel Proust

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so

—Marcel Proust

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More quotations tagged with “wisdom”

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

—John Stuart Mill

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

—James Boswell

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

—Immanuel Kant

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything—and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

—George Santayana

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