Wisdom Quotes

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Marlo Thomas

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

David Icke

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Edwin Markham

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Richard Cecil

God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Ogden Nash

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Yogi Berra

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Walt Whitman

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Erich Maria Remarque

A life without obstacles or trials is a life without growth.

Lamar Thompson

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift

Seneca

The good and wise lead quite lives

Euripides

Hebzucht heeft geen kleur.

Deon Meyer

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Thomas Mcguane

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Madeleine L'Engle

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Frank Herbert

Ere to sleepThou liest down, prepare to guard thy life--A man is friendless in the hour of trial. . . .I to the needy gave, the orphan nourished,Esteemed alike the lowly and the great;But he who ate my bread made insurrection,And those my hands raised up, occasion seizedRebellion to create. . . . They went aboutAll uniformed in garments that I gaveAnd deemed me but a shadow. . . . Those who sharedMy perfumes for anointment, rose betimesAnd broke into my harem.

The Instruction of Amenemhet

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else

Benny Bellamacina