He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
BuddhaIt isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.
Will RogersShowing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
Bruce LeeThere is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel JohnsonWhen befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin FranklinLet us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George WashingtonThe ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William JamesMy experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.
Bill GatesIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard ShawThat’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.
George EliotWe must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy BuffettWisdom begins in wonder.
SocratesI happen to believe there is evil in the world.
John KennedyIt is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin FranklinPolio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.
Bill GatesPessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar WildeThe least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
AristotleEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
HippocratesIf you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo MachiavelliLet him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert FrostScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel KantMy grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
Frank OceanAdvice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
Marcus Tullius CiceroScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand RussellEarly on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Charles BukowskiKnowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis BaconIf we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Maya AngelouThere are no small accidents on this circuit.
Ayrton SennaOur best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques RousseauOn the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
Joe BidenBeware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.
Anthony HopkinsA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostNo one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles SpurgeonGo not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TolkienThere is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz KafkaIt would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine HepburnYouth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard ShawGod has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Joel OsteenIn America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar WildeMany a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William ShakespeareI do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen KellerIf I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
DiogenesLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert EinsteinAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinWe are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya AngelouThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesIt is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas CarlyleJudge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
VoltaireLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawThe wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
ChanakyaLet’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.
Joe BidenFear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellPrecepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles SpurgeonWisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert HooverA little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran