"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

"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

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
— Confucius

"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
— H.L. Mencken

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
— Michael Levine

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

"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 Gibrán

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
— A.A. Milne

"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy "
— Ludwig van Beethoven

"Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why."
— William Edgar Stafford

"One Can't Have Wisdom Without Living Life"
— kianoush

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
— William Blake

"79

Time is a game
played beautifully
by children.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

"The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid."
— Confucius

"All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
--Two Listeners "
— A.J. Russell

"when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because."
— e.e. cummings

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
— Homer

"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
"
— Khalil Gibran

"90

Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. [published in 1979]"
— Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)

"If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...""
— Japanese Proverb [["Lilies" Words and Music: Annie Walker]]

"God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist."
— Merritt Y. Hughes (Ten Perspectives on Milton)

"He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip."
— Laozi

"19

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

"La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar."
— Carmen Martín Gaite (El cuento de nunca acabar: Apuntes sobre la narracion, el amor y la mentira)

"107

To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

"100

People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the city s walls.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

"7

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"O be wise, what can I say more?"
— Jacob

"Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob."
— Charlotte Brontë

"Never in publishing history had a magazine risen so spectacularly and fallen to Earth with such a resounding thud."
— Sam Zuckerman