Marcel Proust Quotes

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Every person has his or her own journey.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.