Wisdom Quotes

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"Hear the Voice of the Bard, Who Present, Past, & Future sees."

"The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own."

"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."

"To be admired by those who do not know you is the beginning of vanity."

"Sorrow and knowledge are our lot in this world; if ignorance were bliss, sorrow would have no place."

"The path to enlightenment is paved with questions, not answers."

"Words are the physicians of a diseased mind."

"The human heart has hidden treasures in secret places."

"The truest light is often found in the darkest places."

"Vanity is the nest in which all the other sins are hatched."

"The essence of thought is silence."

"A person may have a good and virtuous life without being magnificent."

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

"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"The heart knows truths that the mind has yet to comprehend."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"

"Waste not, want not"

"For woman is not undeveloped man but diverse"

"Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge"

"Counsel is a sacred trust"

"Less is more."

"Hope thou not much, and thou shalt lose none."

"How to live and not grow weary is the true problem."

"The more I have pondered the riddle of the unhappiness of mankind, the more I have come to believe that there is no riddle at all."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes."

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think."

"I came to realize that my obsession with always trying to perfect myself was a form of self-abuse."