Ruth Bernhard Quotes

The wise are wise only because they love.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It's funny: the older I get, the more I can pick out when people are acting.

We are wiser than we know.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.

To know is not less than to feel.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

The wise man knows without traveling.

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.