Wisdom Quotes
Words of wisdom gathered from the greatest minds in history. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest wisdom quotes ever written — from Epictetus, Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Love your neighbour; yet don't pull down your hedge.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest men.
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalised his emotions.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry.
He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
There is a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Silence is sometimes the best answer.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.