Wisdom Quotes

"To know how to live is my trade and my art" "The best way to keep your word is not to give it" "The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise." "When you know better, you do better." "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers" "Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy that does not laugh, and the greatness that does not bow before children" "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain" "Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning" "What we call the beginning is often the end" "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards " "Every wise, just, and fortunate man that ever existed owed his greatness, in the first place, to the universal favor of fortune; and in the second, to his own peculiar diligence and virtue" "With the same spirit of gratitude, as we had a better use of our faculties than by listening to the teachers who knew that lesson best" "Old age is always wakeful as if the longer linked with life" "He who hurries through life hurries to his grave" "The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that"