Wisdom Quotes

"Flattery is the food of fools."

"Common sense is as rare as a white crow."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"The human heart has hidden treasures."

"How strange it is that the human mind is capable of such extremes."

"The path of knowledge is strewn with thorns."

"True wealth lies not in possessions but in knowledge and virtue."

"The voice of conscience is the truest guide."

"In the theatre of life, we are all players, but few understand their part."

"Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

"Wisdom whispers while folly shouts."

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

"Wonder is the effect of ignorance; when we are fully informed of a thing, we cease to wonder at it."

"A man's own observation, what he comes to see and understand about himself and his world, forms much better wisdom than any amount of instruction."

"Nature has given us two ears, but one tongue, implying that we should listen more than we speak."

"Revenge is the common delight of vulgar minds, the refuge of desperate and cowardly spirits."

"The distribution of his estate was a task requiring skill and prudence, and it was no small praise that he was equal to it."

"An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of school learning."

"Great wits are to madness near allied."

"A witty woman is a greater treasure than a fair one."

"To be deceived is common, but to know oneself deceived is wisdom."

"The pursuit of pleasure is the pursuit of ruin."

"Passion without reason is the madness of youth."

"The greatest wisdom is knowing what one does not know."

"Reason must temper passion in all things."

"A wise person learns from every experience."

"Beauty fades, but wit endures forever."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite."

"I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise."

"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."