Wisdom Quotes

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they ...

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what yo...

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably aske...

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did...

Night is the mother of counsels.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a ...

The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginni...

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thi...

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will...

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

The worship of power is an old religion.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est e...

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to ...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them...

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our livi...

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken alou...

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itsel...

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs...

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginn...

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can...

I will either find a way, or make one.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer...

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by...

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. C...

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, ...

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kin...

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and w...

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's...

Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con cer...

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the...

If you rest, you rust.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know....

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their...

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temp...

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to o...

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wise...

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for thos...

They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the sec...

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that...

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and...

I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not env...

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the...

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that...

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that...

It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Gr...

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflec...

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who posse...

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that...

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that...

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its natur...

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within

Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, ...

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. The...

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to ha...

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreaso...

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- ...

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported...

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slight...