Wisdom Quotes

"There is an old saying - when life gives you lemons, make lemonade"

"Simplicity is the final achievement"

"I have nothing to say, but this length of silence will be better"

"A wise girl kisses but never tells."

"Ever notice how what passes for lady-like behavior is often just careful planning about which social rules to break?"

"Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman, but loose enough to show you're a lady."

"I think there's an attraction to sadness. We think that sadness is deep, and happiness is shallow."

"I think people should be allowed to make mistakes."

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."

"I never thought it my duty to attempt to coerce anybody into measures they thought wrong."

"I do not believe in the use of my high office to promote my own personal beliefs."

"All I have is all there is. That's the way it is."

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

"I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world comes from people who are too busy to mind their own business."

"The greatest threat to our future is not something that will happen to us... it is something we will do to ourselves."

"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers."

"I used to think it was awful that life was unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

"There is no accounting for what goes on in another person's heart."

"You can't help the poor by destroying the rich."

"I believe the greatest threat is from within."

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

"If you're lucky, you have some sense of what you want, or at least what you don't want."

"I think that what we're looking for is meaning."

"There's a hunger in me that can't be satisfied by external things."

"Sometimes silence speaks louder than words."

"Every great tragedy teaches us something, if we are willing to listen and learn."

"The mind is everything; what you think, you become."

"The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your life."

"Wisdom is knowing what to say; knowledge is knowing how to say it; understanding is knowing when to say it."

"The most profound wisdom often comes from those we expect it least from."