No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham LincolnIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Herman HesseThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovIf you judge investigate.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane AustenHe who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham LincolnWhat you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
Maya AngelouIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainNothing will come of nothing.
William ShakespeareAm I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham LincolnEverybody likes a compliment.
Abraham LincolnThe beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.
Ray BradburyAll generalizations are false including this one.
Mark Twain...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good, in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen, than the greater...
AristotleNever let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Isaac AsimovTurn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah WinfreyAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinWe do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true, they ruin our dreams.
Eric HofferNever tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark TwainHe who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao TzuWisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane AustenSeek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya AngelouNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham LincolnA man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad AliDon’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Bob MarleyTruth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma GandhiAnyone can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
AristotleMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan WattsBrevity is the soul of wit.
William ShakespeareI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnYou ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.
Bob MarleyI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyIntelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador DaliFacts are many but the truth is one.
Rabindranath TagoreHate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
Maya AngelouDesire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
ConfuciusAnybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar WildeWisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Muhammad AliDo not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
ConfuciusProblems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan WattsI am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar WildeExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar WildeImitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma GandhiThose who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma GandhiBeware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin FranklinMeditation brings wisdom, lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
BuddhaFor thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil GibranWe are, therefore, out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.
Alan WattsI think therefore I am. I think.
George CarlinIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinImagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar WildeDon't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath TagoreNever make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya AngelouAll experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.
BuddhaFor what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Kahlil GibranDiscipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
Rabindranath TagoreIn matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiWords may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinPatience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint AugustineBetter three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William ShakespeareWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranMorality is contraband in war.
Mahatma GandhiMore gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon HillAnger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin FranklinWhen anger rises think of the consequences.
ConfuciusI always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar WildeNever use a cannon to kill a fly.
ConfuciusThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand RussellWhen I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham LincolnPoverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma GandhiTeach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter ScottSeek not every quality in one individual.
ConfuciusThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya AngelouThe very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark TwainBut what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.
Edmund BurkeConceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldQuestions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar WildeHow quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane AustenI care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnThere's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George CarlinWe are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldGive thy thoughts no tongue.
William ShakespeareThe greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
HoraceWords are the voice of the heart
ConfuciusA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeWhat is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William BlakeLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert EinsteinOne can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down everything, except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeI've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands, you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya AngelouNever stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham LincolnNobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane AustenIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnThe more things are forbidden the more popular they become.
Mark TwainDoes wisdom, perhaps, appear on the earth as a raven, which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich NietzscheThe man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
ConfuciusThere is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma GandhiNo problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert EinsteinFor those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SophoclesViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiA peace is of the nature of a conquest, for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.
William ShakespeareThey must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
ConfuciusThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeWhen we see men of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
ConfuciusI heard the old old men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away like the waters.'
William Butler YeatsIf you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin FranklinHonesty is the best policy.
Benjamin FranklinPreachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. SeussListen to many, speak to a few.
William ShakespeareAll our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil GibranUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William ShakespeareDemocracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. MenckenFirst have a definite clear practical ideal, a goal an objective. Second have the necessary means to achieve your ends, wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third adjust all your means to that end.
AristotleIt's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da VinciWe cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan WattsThe older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. MenckenHe who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
AristotleI am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham LincolnSometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry SeinfeldI don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham LincolnMartyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark TwainWhen angry - count to four; when very angry - swear.
Mark TwainThere are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
Oscar WildeWhen words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William ShakespeareThere's many a man has more hair than wit.
William ShakespeareWhatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.
BuddhaHe that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin FranklinFor having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin FranklinTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind, he can find the way to Enlightenment and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaA hero is born among a hundred; a wise man is found among a thousand; but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
PlatoThough we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma GandhiIt is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma GandhiWe should take care not to make the intellect our god, it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.
Albert EinsteinWe shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
Winston ChurchillPolitics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Joseph JoubertDo not differentiate on the basis of race, caste, creed or country.
Sai BabaAll that we do is done with an eye to something else.
AristotleThe figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification such as sects and cults are founded on but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert FrostScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantWisdom has its root in goodness not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnd I love that even in the toughest moments when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom and courage and grace.
Michelle ObamaThe release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert EinsteinThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power, and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoThe road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert EinsteinClearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.
Alice WalkerTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch