Wisdom Quotes

"Self defense without common sense is like the earth without the sun!"

- Larry Hilton

"It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Better to be a free bird than a captive king."

- Danish proverb

"The first fifty years give us the text; the next thirty provide the commentary."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

- Tom Wilson

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy are the noise before defeat."

- Sun Tzu

"By the time we hit 50, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves."

- Marie Dressler

"You take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn’t be enough left to run it."

- Henry Ford

"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves."

- Marie Dressler

"Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never is."

- French Proverb

"He who always thinks it is too soon is sure to come too late."

- German Proverb

"Don’t sail out farther than you can row back."

- Danish proverb

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately."

- Oscar Wilde

"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"Gesundheit."

- Flynn

"A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing."

- Pearl Bailey

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future."

- William Wordsworth

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

- Aeschylus

"In wine, there is truth."

- Pliny the Elder

"An open enemy is better than a false friend."

- Greek Proverb

"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."

- George Orwell

"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

- Sun Tzu

"If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny."

- William Blake

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust."

- Demosthenes

"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right."

- Learned Hand

"What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws, and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few—as we have learned to our sorrow. What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interest alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten—that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side-by-side with the greatest."

- Learned Hand

"50 and fabulous: An age where wisdom meets freedom."

"To be 50 years old is to have a treasure chest of experiences, memories, and lessons learned."

- Anonymous

"Welcome to the age where wisdom and adventure meet. Happy 50th!"

"50 is the golden year where every wrinkle tells a story of laughter, love, and strength."

- Unknown