Wisdom Quotes

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

~ John Lennon

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

~ Langston Hughes

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

~ Mark Twain

Never laugh at live dragons.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

~ Paulo Coelho

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

~ Aristotle

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

~ Albert Einstein

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

~ Fran Lebowitz

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

~ Paulo Coelho

Angry people are not always wise.

~ Jane Austen

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

~ Albert Einstein

Knowing others is intelligence,knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

~ Lao Tzu

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

~ Colette

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

I'm not young enough to know everything.

~ J.m. Barrie

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

~ Kahlil Gibran

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

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Bob Marley

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

~ Albert Einstein

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

~ Truman Capote

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

~ Thomas Paine

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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.

~ Paulo Coelho

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

~ Bruce Lee

We learn from failure, not from success!

~ Bram Stoker

Never, never, never give in!

~ Winston S. Churchill

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

~ Voltaire

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

~ T.s. Eliot

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

~ Anne Bradstreet

All knowledge hurts.

~ Cassandra Clare

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

~ Harper Lee