Victor Hugo Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Being Free, Poverty

• Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Wisdom, Follow Your Heart

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Vices, Veils

• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Wisdom, Stills

  Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK

• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  Victor Hugo

  Motivational, Success, Being Strong

• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Ignorant

• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

• When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Relationship, Wisdom

• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Wisdom, Live Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.984, Wordsworth Editions

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Sea, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

• No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

• From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Views

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.810, Wordsworth Editions

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Decision, Style

• One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Army, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The History of a Crime”

• To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Balance, Harmony

  "Ninety-Three". Book by Victor Hugo, Book VII, Chapter V, 1874.

• The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Paradise, Hell

  Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.393, Victor Hugo

• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Men

• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

• The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Wind, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.726, Wordsworth Editions

• What makes night within us may leave stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.79, Mondial

• Wisdom is the health of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Soul

• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Pain, Men

• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Artist

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