Wisdom Quotes

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

I endeavour to [...] be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress.

Elizabeth Montagu

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Emily Dickinson

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Theodor W. Adorno

Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.

William Blake

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard

Inspired ideas are not to be repeated. They quickly wear out and lose their magic.

Sándor Márai

You don’t need eyes to see what is yours.

Sándor Márai

When something works, stay with it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

It is not enough just to change one thing. When you change that, you also change thousands of other things as well by sheer necessity.

Jack L. Chalker

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke