Wisdom Quotes

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey

Dreams, Death, Give

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yourself, Give, Advice

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia

Ignorance, Teach

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron

Life, Knowledge, Sorrow

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

Love, Wise, Impossible

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather

After, Until, Creek

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov

Happy, Whether, Winter

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sense, Common, Degree

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Freedom, Alone

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young, Old, Knows

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

Music, Nothing, Understand

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Happiness, Supreme

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

Age, Older, Grow

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

Best, Future, Invent

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James

Learning, Overlook

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Beginning, Conquer

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake

Road, Excess, Palace

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

Nature, Wise, Foolish

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

Mind, Greatest, Trouble

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov

Knowledge, Put, Value

Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great, Passion, Acts

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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