Wisdom Quotes

“The older I get, the less I know. By the time I'm 80, I'll be a raving idiot.”

“Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.”

“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”

“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“Let us not be so ill-advised, men of Athens, as to throw away the great blessings we have in our hands in our eagerness for what we have not.”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”

“I've learned that it's okay to be flawed. It's actually a beautiful thing.”

“Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right every time.”

“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”

“You have to be a little bit wiser than the person you're going to cheat.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

“Sometimes the best investment is the one you don't make.”

“What is the use of being a millionaire if you cannot have common sense?”

“The key to winning is choosing which battles to fight.”

“A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.”

“When you're in a hole, stop digging.”

“The best of things, beyond their measure, cloy.”