Inspirational Quotes on Wisdom

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

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

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

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

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

“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”

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

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”

“All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”

“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”