I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David ThoreauTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise PascalBoth old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
EpicurusRegarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich NietzscheThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonYouth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin DisraeliLet me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareI would fain grow old learning many things.
PlatoBlessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry KissingerThe man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
PlatoWe will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce MeyerAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. EisenhowerA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostNothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleCreate a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon HillI am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.
Joyce MeyerA wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce LeeMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt VonnegutI do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas CarlyleA man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo GalileiKnowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao TzuStart with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King SolomonHe who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
Joseph AddisonGreat indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich NietzscheThe superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
ConfuciusJudges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis BaconThe time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham LincolnFalsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund BurkeHe that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis BaconA clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheChildren are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond TutuI am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
ConfuciusThe learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
PlatoIt seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
John C. MaxwellThe wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao TzuAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da VinciMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeCunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
PlatoHe who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Lao TzuThe art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
DiogenesLet him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert FrostForty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea BallouTake time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin FranklinAll the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
VoltaireA man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard M. NixonStudy the past, if you would divine the future.
ConfuciusMen are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard ShawThe teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert HubbardIt is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireA wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel JohnsonKnow what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Elbert HubbardAs you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
John C. MaxwellExperience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George WashingtonWho has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl JungThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
John C. MaxwellA wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates