Wisdom Quotes

"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."

- Confucius

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."

- Confucius

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

- Confucius

"Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

- Confucius

"When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary."

- Confucius

"If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret."

- Confucius

"The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. New wine cannot be put into old bottles, for the Bible states that the old bottles will break. You intuitively know what should depart from your life."

- Raymond Charles Barker

"Money looks better in your bank than on your feet."

- Sophia Amoruso

"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

- Desmond Tutu

"Never depend on single income. Make investments to create a second source"

- Warren Buffett

"The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing."

- Elizabeth Towne

"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely."

- Thomas Henry Huxley

"Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all: Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all."

- English Proverb

"For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest."

- Hasidic saying

"Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. When we are young, we have the face and figure God gave us. We did nothing to earn our good looks. But as we get older, character becomes etched on our face. Beautiful old people are works of art. Like a white candle in a holy place, so it the beauty of an aged face."

- James Simpson

"The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind."

- William Wordsworth

"The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young."

- Maeve Binchy

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Your legacy lasts forever, the money does not."

- Shawn Porter

"Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom."

- Rene Russo

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

- John F. Kennedy

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

- Groucho Marx

"Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law."

- Buddha

"Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative."

- Buddha

"People with opinions just go around bothering each other."

- Buddha

"Live like a CEO, spend like an intern"

- Anonymous

"El silencio es oro molido"

"La paciencia es el compañero de la sabiduría"

"Más Vale Prevenir Que Curar – Better Safe Than Sorry"

"His life was gentle; and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, ‘This was a man.’"