Wisdom Quotes

"I should have been more cautious."

"The past cannot be altered."

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

"Wish your own welfare in heart—foremost."

"Suffering has taught me wisdom."

"Better to be without sense than to misapply it as you do."

"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; that wound the man that resorts to them worse than his enemy."

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

"He does not know what it is to long for something he cannot have."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"It is the biggest sort of bigotry to believe there is but one sort of bigotry."

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."

"Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson."

"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."

"It does credit both to your head and your heart."

"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends"

"He shall learn that revenge is a hollow victory"

"Pride is a luxury we cannot afford"

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"For there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."

"Man's v-way is paved with bricks of his own baking."

"He knows a fragrant thing when he smells it."

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously."