(1674 quotes found)
“Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...”
Bob Marley
“And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”
Mark Twain
“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue”
“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
Francis Bacon Sr.