Wisdom Quotes
You can't connect the dots looking forward;
you can only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust that the dots
will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something
- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
This approach has never let me down,
and it has made all the difference in my life.
- Steve Jobs
We can be knowledgeable
with other men's knowledge,
but we cannot be wise
with other men's wisdom.
- Michel de Montaigne
The best cure for anger is delay.
- Seneca
A fool flatters himself,
a wise man flatters the fool.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
No one can give you
better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Each of us knows all.
We need only open our minds
to hear our own wisdom.
- Dan Brown
We are made wise not
by the recollection of our past,
but by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Wisdom is the reward
you get for a lifetime of listening
when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson
The most certain sign of wisdom
is continual cheerfulness;
her state is like the things
above the moon,
always clear and serene.
- Michael de Montaigne
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- Sophocles
Common sense in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The whole problem with the world
is that fools and fanatics are
always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
A single conversation
with a wise man is better
than ten years of study.
- Chinese Proverb
That man is richest whose
pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
A generous man forgets what he gives
and remembers what he receives.
- Old Proverb
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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