Wisdom Quotes

"The human heart is the starting point of all matters."

"The wise man learns from the mistakes of others."

"Wisdom grows with age and experience."

"The heart knows truths the mind cannot fathom."

"All the world's a stage, and wisdom lies in the performance."

"Know thyself—this was one of the greatest maxims of antiquity."

"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."

"He is a wise man who does not give the right answer to every question asked."

"A lucky man is rarer than a wise one; in fact, I take wisdom to be the rarer thing."

"A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."

"The greatest powers are often hidden in the smallest things."

"Humanity's noblest endowment is the capacity to know good from evil."

"The human race is divided into two classes: those who hunger for truth and those who hunger for power."

"Silence is sometimes an answer."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."

"Excess of wine reveals the truth hidden within the soul."

"Every vice was once a virtue taken to excess."

"The pursuit of knowledge requires the humility to admit ignorance."

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

"Anger is a short madness."

"You will never be wretched if you are wise."

"The golden mean avoids both extremes."

"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."

"Your worth consists in what you are, not in what you have."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"We are not measured by our possessions, but by our character."

"Wisdom comes not from answers, but from questions well asked."

"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men."

"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

"It is a bad thing to stumble twice over the same stone."