Quotes for Wisdom

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Thomas Huxley

You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.

Wladimir Klitschko

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Bryant H. McGill

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Denis Waitley

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

John Updike

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution... We have been able to put all issues on the table.

Li Keqiang

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Lucille Ball

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Thomas Huxley

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Stendhal

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Joseph Addison

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander