"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom." ― Maurice Maeterlinck Topic(s): Wisdom More From Maurice Maeterlinck "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand." "Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance." "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough." More In Wisdom "I don’t think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."― Elizabeth Gilbert "One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."― John Kenneth Galbraith "From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."― Publilius Syrus