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Wisdom.

Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”

Bernard Meltzer

“If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.”

“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“He that lies down with dogs gets up with fleas.”

Spanish proverbs

“It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.”

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

“Experience is not what happens to you. Experience is what you do with what happens to you.”

“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”

“He who wants a mule without fault may go afoot.”

Spanish proverbs

“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”

“Money without brains is always dangerous.”

“If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.”

Abigail Van Buren

“The more contemptible and ridiculous a man is — the readier he is with his tongue.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

Sidonie Gabrielle Collette

“God is best known in not knowing him.”

Saint Augustine

“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”

“Silence is a source of great strength.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

Charles Spurgeon

“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”

Benjamin Franklin

“There are no gains without pains.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.”

“Everyone wants to be great; nobody wants to carry the sack.”

Norwegian proverbs

“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”

“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”

Publilius Syrus

“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

Benjamin Franklin

“You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.”

“We have the best government that money can buy.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

Charles Dickens

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”

“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”

“In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Honesty is the best policy.”

Benjamin Franklin

“It is not goodness to be better than the very worst.”