Wisdom Quotes

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."

"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."

Isaac Newton

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

Seneca

"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change."

"Practice is the best of all instructors."

Publilius Syrus

"Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!"

Immanuel Kant

"Anger is a short madness."

Horace

"What do I know?"

Michel de Montaigne

"Common sense is not so common."

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

Blaise Pascal

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Francis Bacon

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Søren Kierkegaard

"If you want to be happy, be."

Kozma Prutkov

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."

Anton Chekhov

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."

Pema Chödrön