Wisdom Quotes

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

George Eliot

"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience."

Jane Austen

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."

G. K. Chesterton

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Kahlil Gibran

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."

"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

"To live in harmony with the ways of the world is wisdom."

Thiruvalluvar

"Learn thoroughly what ought to be learnt, and then live by what you have learnt."

Thiruvalluvar

"The deeper you dig a well in the sand, the more water flows; the more a man learns, the more his wisdom flows."

Thiruvalluvar

"The wise should be like a winnowing basket: keep what is essential and let the chaff blow away."

Kabir

"What you would do tomorrow, do today; what you would do today, do now."

Kabir

"Guard your dignity, Rahim, for without it nothing remains; once it is lost, neither pearl, nor man, nor flour can be restored."

Rahim

"Thousands of desires, each worth dying for; many of them I fulfilled, yet still they were too few."

Mirza Ghalib

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Isaac Newton

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

Charles Darwin

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

Rachel Carson

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."

Josh Billings

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."