Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma GandhiNonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
Mahatma GandhiIn a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
ConfuciusBetween friends there is no need of justice.
AristotleThe actuality of thought is life.
AristotleIf you judge investigate.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHe who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham LincolnHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
ZhuangziIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
William ShakespeareIf you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark TwainLife's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin FranklinTo understand everything is to forgive everything
BuddhaMemory is the scribe of the soul.
AristotleMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my own sake.
AristotleEverybody likes a compliment.
Abraham LincolnThe secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
BuddhaWho is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Benjamin FranklinThe desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible.
Maya Angelou...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...
AristotleFear has its use, but cowardice has none.
Mahatma GandhiIt is better to travel well than to arrive.
BuddhaWe are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya AngelouHe who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao TzuIt is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor HugoNothing is permanent.
BuddhaAs irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
BuddhaWhen you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
Bob DylanAlways borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
Oscar WildeRemember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai LamaNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham LincolnMoney is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
Bob MarleyThe safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. LewisThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeThe more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William ShakespeareYou talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Kahlil GibranAll that glisters is not gold.
William ShakespeareIf you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
George Bernard ShawI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnA wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.
Maya AngelouFacts are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.
Mark TwainA man can die but once.
William ShakespeareI would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.
William ShakespeareWisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Muhammad AliDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother TeresaIf you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – never lie to yourself.
Paulo CoelhoNobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane AustenI trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.
Oprah WinfreyIt is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin FranklinIn heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard ShawKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark TwainClose some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.
Paulo CoelhoWhoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity, so the wise man knows no hatred
BuddhaWisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Herman HesseGod has given me no control over the following moment. I am concerned about taking care of the present.
Mahatma GandhiAll get what they want; they do not always like it.
C. S. LewisI think therefore I am. I think.
George CarlinLearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
Herman HesseI've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Maya AngelouWe read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Rabindranath TagoreThe aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.
AristotleI am one who loved not wisely but too well.
William ShakespeareTo be wise and love, exceeds man’s might.
William ShakespeareWe are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.
Alan WattsWrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.
Rabindranath TagoreHonest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiIt is better to know how to learn, than to know.
Dr. SeussRemember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
Frank ZappaStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleNo one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
Paulo CoelhoWhen I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Paulo CoelhoOne can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
Mahatma GandhiThe one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Rabindranath TagoreThe false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
Rabindranath TagoreNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity by definition is unassailable.
James Arthur BaldwinFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William ShakespeareEven peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin FranklinTo be idle is a short road to death, and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
BuddhaThe wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently, but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.
AristotleA wise traveler never despises his own country.
William HazlittIn matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert HallI saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body but whatever it was that made her body live.
ConfuciusAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. MenckenGood men abandon lusting after things, they take no pleasure in sensual speech, when touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise show no elation or dejection.
BuddhaDesire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William ShakespearePeople with virtue must speak out, People who speak are not all virtuous.
ConfuciusYou CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Oprah WinfreyThere are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
BuddhaThe skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Sun TzuWhen a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
BuddhaYou only lose what you cling to.
BuddhaOne's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar WildeReality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one.
Albert EinsteinIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
William ShakespeareWho is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinThe mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
AristotleThere is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel ButlerConflict cannot survive without your participation.
Wayne DyerThe pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane AustenA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas CarlyleSurprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane AustenHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinEach generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George OrwellA man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainAll our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da VinciTravel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas FullerIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard ShawThe superior man understands what is right, the inferior man understands what will sell.
ConfuciusFortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar GracianA dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
BuddhaIt is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark TwainVanity, working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane AustenHe that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin FranklinSometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
Joel OsteenThose who know how to think need no teachers.
Mahatma GandhiThe disciple should associate with a wise friend who detects and censures his faults and who points out virtues as a guide tells of buried treasures. There is happiness not woe to him who associates with such an intelligent friend.
BuddhaThose who own much have much to fear.
Rabindranath TagoreA fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareA word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill CosbyMy great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert LawrenceThe more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark TwainWhen your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark TwainMy sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane AustenThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation, rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleTo refuse awards is another way of accepting them, with more noise than is normal.
Mark TwainYou will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
BuddhaAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark TwainBeing a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLearning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity and a provision in old age.
AristotleHe who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun TzuIt takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin FranklinStanding in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret ThatcherThere is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
AristotleFrom a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Arthur Conan DoyleEach of us has that right that possibility to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself she will be invented. So to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Maya AngelouA mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath TagoreWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil GibranWe should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
AristotleWhen the storytelling in a culture goes bad, the result is decadence.
AristotleAge considers, youth ventures.
Rabindranath TagoreI like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William ShakespeareRather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin FranklinThe wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo CoelhoI still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Oprah WinfreyHe who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ConfuciusThe most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert EinsteinNoise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark TwainHe that speaks much is much mistaken.
Benjamin FranklinWhere so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Jane AustenSelf-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen KellerA man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
ConfuciusA 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma GandhiUnity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
BuddhaThe obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil GibranA well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da VinciEvery judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas AquinasVices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles DickensWe should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma GandhiThe wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years, sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl JungA bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
AristotleThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThose who do not complain are never pitied
Jane AustenDon't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
ConfuciusNo one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
HeraclitusIf two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept, because you will lose one friend, on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.
Saint AugustineEverything that can be counted does not necessarily count, everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert EinsteinGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William ShakespeareThe more you own the more you know you don't own.
AristotleWhat is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildeNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar WildeEmancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath TagoreNeither a borrower nor a lender be.
William ShakespeareBetter a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William ShakespeareThink simple, as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd WrightA youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
ConfuciusWhoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert EinsteinA fool despises good counsel but a wise man takes it to heart.
ConfuciusNearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma GandhiMine is better than ours.
Benjamin FranklinOne's own religion is, after all, a matter between oneself and one's Maker, and no one else's.
Mahatma GandhiSaints need sinners.
Alan Watts'Tis better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of.
William ShakespeareHe does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
ConfuciusMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar WildeWhere an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane AustenHaving abandoned the ways of darkness, let the wise follow the light. Having come from home to homelessness, let him enjoy the bliss of solitude so difficult to achieve.
BuddhaNo enemy is worse than bad advice.
Sophocles'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William ShakespeareMake everything as simple as possible but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinHappiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
AristotleOne's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar WildeThe robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
William ShakespeareThe post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
Jane AustenOne swallow does not make a spring nor does one fine day.
AristotleIt is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. MenckenMemory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert EinsteinAn American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles DarwinA person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark TwainSometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry SeinfeldWhat's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William ShakespeareI don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham LincolnThe cautious seldom err.
ConfuciusThe moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma GandhiHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin FranklinThe wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
BuddhaI have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
Hedy LamarrLove and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Kahlil GibranAction expresses priorities.
Mahatma GandhiHe who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da VinciSelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar WildeWhen in doubt, don't.
Benjamin FranklinRescue someone unwilling to look after himself and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Mason CooleyIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George WashingtonThere is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma GandhiDogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha ChristieIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark TwainModest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William ShakespeareIt is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin FranklinI have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David ThoreauThe way of the superior person is threefold, virtuous they are free from anxieties, wise they are free from perplexities, and bold they are free from fear.
ConfuciusIt is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb ColtonAvoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham LincolnWherever there is danger there lurks opportunity, whenever there is opportunity there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Earl NightingalePrayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma GandhiAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma GandhiBetter a broken promise than none at all.
Mark TwainLet me embrace thee sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareThe fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas FullerSociety is like the air, necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
George SantayanaThink not lightly of evil, saying 'It will not come to me.' Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil.
BuddhaEven death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
BuddhaIntolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Mahatma GandhiA church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward BeecherTo write well express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
AristotleThe tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
BuddhaIf you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil GibranMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
AristotleIt is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen KellerA wise man recognizing that the world is but an illusion does not act as if it is real so he escapes the suffering.
BuddhaWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
Alan WattsI'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. SeussThe whole is more than the sum of its parts.
AristotleTruth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
MenciusIf it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La RochefoucauldLook like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
William ShakespeareTempt not a desperate man.
William ShakespeareEven when laws have been written down they ought not always to remain unaltered.
AristotleA mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane AustenChi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
ConfuciusCompliments win friends, honesty loses them.
Rabindranath TagoreWhat you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
Rabindranath TagoreChoose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
ConfuciusNeither a wise man, nor a brave man, lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Kahlil GibranA person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
Herman HesseThe opposite of every truth is just as true.
Herman HesseNo man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller