“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
-Maurice Switzer
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
-William Shakespeare
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
-Mark Twain
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
-Jess C. Scott
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
-Aristotle
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
-Socrates
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
-Isaac Asimov
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
-John Lennon
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
-Mark Twain
“May you live every day of your life.”
-Jonathan Swift
“Never laugh at live dragons.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
-Paulo Coelho
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
-Aristotle
“If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about,
then I don’t know what is.”
-Chad Sugg
“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
-Abigail Van Buren
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
-Oscar Wilde
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
-Albert Einstein
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
-Fran Lebowitz
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
-Isaac Asimov
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
-Socrates
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
-Paulo Coelho
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
-Confucius
“Angry people are not always wise.”
-Jane Austen
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
-Patrick Rothfuss
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
-Patrick Ness
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
-Elbert Hubbard
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
-Albert Einstein
“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
-Lao Tzu
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
-Colette
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
-George Orwell
“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
-Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
-Jalaluddin Rumi
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“I’m not young enough to know everything.”
-J.M. Barrie
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
-Kahlil Gibran
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
-Albert Einstein
“Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
-Bob Marley
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
-Eckhart Tolle
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
-Joseph Campbell
“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
-Paulo Coelho
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
-Jalaluddin Rumi
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
-Thomas Paine
“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
-Rick Riordan
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
-Paulo Coelho
“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
-Ludwig van Beethoven
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
-Maya Angelou
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
-Robert Frost
