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Wisdom.

Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era

“When you're feeling stressed, count the ways you're blessed.”

“He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.”

William Hazlitt

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”

William Arthur Ward

“Everything is not as bad as it sounds.”

Norwegian proverbs

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.”

Jefferson Davis

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

Albert Einstein

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”

“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”

“Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.”

John C. Maxwell

“A closed mouth catches no flies.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

Benjamin Franklin

“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”

“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Business is a combination of war and sport.”

“History is a vast early warning system.”

“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”

Benjamin Franklin

“I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.”

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”

“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”

William Shakespeare

“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”

William Shakespeare

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.”

“Don’t worry about the challenges. Get excited about the rewards of crushing them.”

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.”

“Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.”

“The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”

“Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions.”

“When the devil says his paternosters he wants to cheat you.”

French proverbs

“Timid dogs bark worse than they bite.”

“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never give advice unasked.”

German proverbs

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

Benjamin Franklin

“An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.”

Danish proverbs

“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”

Henry Kissinger

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”

“Better to jump in the water and learn to swim than stand on the shore wondering.”

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.”

Oliver Goldsmith

“In the end one who is inwardly poor comes to be also poor outwardly.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“When we are buried in nonessentials, we lose track of what is truly significant.”