Wisdom Quotes

"The greatest wisdom is to make the least display of it."

"The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord."

"The great virtue is knowing when to be angry."

"The truest character of ignorance is vanity."

"When you were a child, you were told to eat your vegetables. As an adult, you realize vegetables are delicious."

"The very minute a man ceases to have ambitious thoughts, he becomes happier."

"It takes forty years to discover the truth about life, and sixty more to accept it."

"When you see the world as it really is, you understand why some people choose madness."

"A man of sense is never long moped by the affecting circumstances."

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

"The wisest of all men is he who knows himself to be a fool."

"When a man is in doubt about this point in the middle of a story—what course lies for him?"

"The heart of man is so constituted that nothing can satisfy it but the greatest of virtues."

"A man's dignity lies not in what he possesses, but in what he is."

"The measure of a man is not by the number of his days, but by the quality of his thoughts."

"What we think, we become."

"To understand the heart, one must look beyond the actions to the intentions."

"A man can be educated without being learned; wise without being clever."

"The eye is the mirror of the soul, but what we see reflects our own understanding."

"Wisdom whispers where folly shouts."

"The wisdom of age is often discounted by the certainty of youth."

"Clear your mind of cant."

"To listen well is as powerful a practice as to talk well."

"Language is the dress of thought."

"Nothing really matters very much and few things matter at all."

"A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage."

"We are too apt to think that the evils we suffer are peculiar to ourselves."

"The mind is the true nobility of man."

"There is nothing more dreadful to a woman of sense than to be mixed up in affairs of intrigue."

"I am convinced that the heart is superior to the head."