Wisdom Quotes

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.