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Wisdom.

Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era

“The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

“We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like.”

“The modern devil is cheap dopamine.”

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“There is nothing so bad that it cannot be worse.”

Norwegian proverbs

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Winston Churchill

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”

William Wordsworth

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

Chinese proverbs

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.”

“The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on our gains, any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”

William Bolitho

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”

Thomas Jefferson

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

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

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

George S. Patton

“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

Thomas Jefferson

“No one ever changes until the pain level gets high enough.”

Shauna Niequist

“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.”

“When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.”

African proverbs

“All cats appear grey in the dark.”

English proverbs

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

Alexander Graham Bell

“Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.”

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

African proverbs

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go to move forward.”

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”

“It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.”

“If you are lonely when you're alone you are in a bad company.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Be completely aware of your pain, but don't allow it to define who you are. Pain is an emotion that passes.”

Sylvester McNutt

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”

George Washington