"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more." ― Elizabeth Hardwick Topic(s): Wisdom More From Elizabeth Hardwick "Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid." "The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." More In Wisdom "Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."― Baltasar Gracian "Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor."― Margaret Cho "The greatest wisdom is to realize one’s lack of it."― Constantin Stanislavski