Wisdom Quotes And Sayings

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“I don’t understand people who say they need more “Me Time.” What other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone else’s body?”
– Jarod Kintz

“I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dying my hair tonight.”
– Jarod Kintz

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
– Jess C. Scott

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
– Jimi Hendrix

“I’m not young enough to know everything.”
– J.M. Barrie

“A little nonsense now and then, Is cherished by the wisest men.”
– John August

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
– John Keats

“The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.”
– John Boyle O’Reilley

“I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.”
– John Buchan

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
– John Lennon

“Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
– John Russell

“May you live every day of your life.”
– Jonathan Swift

“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
– Josh Billings

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all – the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien,The Lord of the Rings

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”
– Lao-Tzu

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.”
– Lemuel K. Washburn

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“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

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
– Mark Twain

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
– Mark Twain

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
– Marjorie Pay Hinckley

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