Wisdom Quotes

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."

- Erwin Rommel

"Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success."

- Peter Pace

"In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler."

- Kurt Student

""Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.""

- Hal Borland

"There is wisdom and beauty from disabled people everywhere. We just have to look and have the humility to learn."

- Alice Wong

"Wish you would learn to love people and use things, and not the other way around."

- Drake

"You need to act your age and not your girl's age."

- Drake

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

- Oscar Wilde

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

- Oscar Wilde

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."

- Oscar Wilde

"Guys have underestimated me my entire life. And for years, I never understood why. It used to really bother me. But then one day, I was driving my little boy to school, and I saw this quote by Walt Whitman, and it was painted on the wall there. It said, 'Be curious, not judgmental.' I like that."

- Ted Lasso

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money."

- Abigail van Buren

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."

- Lao Tzu

"When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day."

- Congo Proverb

"The sweeter the honey the smarter the bee that made it."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Where you find bees you find honey."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."

- Sun Tzu

"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"“It is unwise to pay too much but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money. When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common sense law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can’t be done.”"

- John Ruskin

"The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens. Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Men of few words are the best men."

- William Shakespeare

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time."

- Abraham Lincoln

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

- Winston Churchill

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

- Albert Einstein

"Ocean wisdom whispers, be gentle, yet unstoppable, like the turtle's journey"

"The path of studying is never smooth, but it leads to the peak of understanding and wisdom."

"Follow your heart, but take your brain with you."

"Daughters are echoes of their mothers, speaking in voices of love, wisdom, and strength."

"The wisdom of mothers is passed down to daughters through stories, silences, and sacrifices."

"In reflection, a daughter finds her mother’s wisdom woven through the fabric of her life."