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Wisdom.

Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era

“Wisdom is found only in truth.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.”

Swedish proverbs

“The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.”

“There are some desires that are not desirable.”

G.K. Chesterton

“The early bird catches the worm.”

English proverbs

“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

William Shakespeare

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

Winston Churchill

“The reverse side also has a reverse side.”

Japanese proverbs

“When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.”

“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”

“A sparrow in the hand is better than a rooster on the roof.”

Russian proverbs

“Idleness is the mother of all vices.”

Russian proverbs

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

“It's not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration.”

“The appetite comes during a meal.”

Russian proverbs

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

“Not all keys hang from one girdle.”

Norwegian proverbs

“Old habits have deep roots.”

Norwegian proverbs

“A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.”

Danish proverbs

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”

Winston Churchill

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

“By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.”

Italian proverbs

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”

Italian proverbs

“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

“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.”

“If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

“Big mouthfuls often choke.”

Italian proverbs

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

“When one door shuts, a hundred open.”

Spanish proverbs

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

“One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.”

French proverbs

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Change yourself - you are in control.”

“We boil at different degrees.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't.”

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

“Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.”

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

“If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed they’ll prove you right.”

“The limits of language are the limits of one's world.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”

“Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”