Quotes in the category wisdom

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Maurice Switzer

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Mark Twain

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Jess C. Scott

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

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

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Never laugh at live dragons.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi