Wisdom Quotes

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

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

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

A house divided cannot stand.

he who is greedy is always in want

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.