Wisdom Quotes

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about your thoughts."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"Memory is the nurse of all good thoughts."

"To act without judgment is madness; to judge without action is cowardice."

"The path to wisdom lies in truth."

"The most profound wisdom comes from experience."

"To listen is to understand."

"To understand is to forgive."

"The voice within is louder than the world without."

"The provision of the belly is not so necessary as the provision of the mind."

"The greatest virtues are sometimes latent in the most obscure places."

"Wisdom comes not from age but from reflection and experience."

"The mind is the most powerful force known to man."

"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

"Misery is the effect of weak judgments."

"Knowledge without practice maketh but a vain philosopher."

"Modesty is the virtue of the wise."

"Cunning is the craft of the weak."

"Women are often one and twenty; but men are always men."

"Do not attempt to screen your children from trials; it is only in the school of adversity that we learn anything of value."

"In order to gain the affections of a rational being, we must make ourselves rational."

"I regard women who are conducted with a due mixture of dignity and weakness as the most respectable."

"In order to be truly moral, women must be truly rational."

"The cultivation of the feminine virtues should not preclude the development of masculine strength."

"The conquest of the mind over matter is the beginning of all true knowledge."

"Independence of mind is more valuable than independence of fortune."

"The mind has no sex; intellectual ability is not determined by gender."

"Women are capable of reason and should be respected for their intellectual contributions."

"The world is so full of absurdities that I have long ceased to be surprised at anything."

"The true measure of a man's worth is not what he possesses, but what possesses him."