Wisdom Quotes

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Lost Time is never found again.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

~ Alfred Tennyson

But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

~ John Flanagan

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

~ Shannon Hale

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

~ Sara Teasdale

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

~ Scott Westerfeld

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

~ Robin Williams

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

~ Libba Bray

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

~ Charles Dickens

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

~ Octavia E. Butler

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

~ Confucius

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

~ Theodore Roosevelt

My soul is in the sky.

~ William Shakespeare

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.]

~ Philip Pullman

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

~ Daniel Keyes

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

~ Wallace Stegner

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

~ Isaac Newton

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II

~ William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends.

~ William Shakespeare

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man without words is a man without thought.

~ John Steinbeck

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

~ Madeleine L'engle

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

~ Kevin Brooks

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

~ Holly Black

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

~ Lynsay Sands

There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.

~ Ashley Rice

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

~ Galileo Galilei

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

~ William Shakespeare

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

~ Eckhart Tolle

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

~ Dante Alighieri

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends, they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

~ Emily Brontë

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert