Wise quotes

“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.” Terry Pratchett

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” Douglas Adams

“Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.” Martin Luther King

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King

“When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.” Quintilian

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.” Quintilian

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” Rodin

“Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.” Kurt Vonnegut

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” Lin Yutang

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.” Lin Yutang

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.” Albert Einstein

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.” Albert Einstein

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” Plato

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” Mark Twain

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.” Mark Twain

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” Mark Twain

“Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.” Mark Twain

“Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.” Mark Twain

“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.” Mark Twain

“He who knows others is wise He who know himself is enlightened.” Lao Tzu

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Benjamin Franklin

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” Benjamin Franklin

“If you would live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.” Benjamin Franklin

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” Frank Herbert

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.” Hippocrates

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.” Mahatma Gandhi