The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. MenckenPlato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
AristotleNot when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich NietzscheI never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert FrostTake time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin FranklinIn the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai LamaIf you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
Dale CarnegieNothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleKnowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl JungHe who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da VinciOne whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
ChanakyaDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
EpicurusObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusNot everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
Franz KafkaWhere there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da VinciA woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin FranklinIf we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
ChanakyaAnger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert EinsteinSeek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel KantI know love is the answer.
DJ KhaledTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaI hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas JeffersonThe light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauThere are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusWe become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaForty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea BallouThe foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
BuddhaThe man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSilence is the virtue of fools.
Francis BaconBy letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao TzuIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
William ShakespeareIf you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Napoleon HillMen who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Golda MeirWe humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
Thich Nhat HanhThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin DisraeliFor one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
AristotleA lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
Joel OsteenI think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
Madeleine AlbrightBefore we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBy the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Terry PratchettI can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander PopePhilosophy is the highest music.
PlatoWe’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.
Kendrick LamarFools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander PopeThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. PattonKeep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin FranklinAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinEvery nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James MadisonMan is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.
DiogenesCommon sense is not so common.
VoltaireTruth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark TwainAny man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil GibranAnger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma GandhiI learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard ShawBetter a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius