Wisdom Quotes

Talk is free, [...] but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

Neil Gaiman

The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Agatha Christie

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get.

Ray Bradbury

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defence strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Charles Caleb Colton

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

The only true guide is your heart. Nothing less than its supreme desire can help you.

Christopher Paolini

Cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

Cassandra Clare

You can best protect others from temptation if you are, yourself, tempted.

Laurell K. Hamilton

With great power there must also come great responsibility.

Stan Lee

We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

Paulo Coelho

Big things are often just small things that are noticed.

Markus Zusak

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Haruki Murakami

Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.

John Milton

- A question, before you go. What is the truth?
- We place faith in ourselves. We see the world the way it really is and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.
- What is the world, then?
- An illusion. One of which can either submit to - like most do - or transcend.
- What is it to transcend?
- To recognize nothing is true and everything is permitted. That laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our creed does not commend us to be free - it commends us to be wise.

Assassin`s Creed