Wisdom Quotes

"My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa."

- Bob Veale

"All great and precious things are lonely."

- John Steinbeck

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."

- Jonathan Swift

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

""He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.""

- Confucius

""A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. He is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.""

- Wendy Mass

""A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.""

- Jonathan Swift

"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."

- Confucius

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take experience first; the cash will come later."

- Harold Geneen

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

- Harry S. Truman

"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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."

- Anne Frank

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."

- John C. Maxwell

"Luck never gives; it only lends."

- Proverb

"Luck is the idol of the idle."

- Proverb

"Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it."

- Brandon Mull

"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."

- John Dewey

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."

- Confucius

"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."

- Chanakya

"Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top."

- Chanakya

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

- Leonard Cohen

"Light is the symbol of truth."

- James Russell Lowell

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."

- Mark Twain

"You come into this world alone, and you leave it alone, but it's what you do in between that counts."

"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance."