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Wisdom.

Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Virtuous ten years - still not enough; evil one day - too much already.”

Chinese proverbs

“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”

Jean Paul Richter

“Always measure an obstacle next to the size of the dream you're pursuing.”

John C. Maxwell

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.”

“Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.”

“Beware of a silent dog and of still water.”

“In life lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough. You must take action.”

“Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have.”

H Jackson Brown Jr

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”

Albert Einstein

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

Albert Einstein

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

“A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's”

Jean Paul Richter

“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.”

Albert Einstein

“The straightest road is shortest, but not always easiest.”

Norwegian proverbs

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

Albert Einstein

“He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.”

“It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

Abraham Lincoln

“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay

“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be the chief but never the lord.”

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”

“Principles have no real force except when one is well - fed.”

“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”

Eleanor Roosevelt