Wisdom Quotes

"The best books… are those that tell you what you know already."

- George Orwell

"Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic."

- Carl Sagan

"Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint."

- Charles Stanley

"Never leave fish to find fish"

- Moses, 1200BC

"You can never step in the same river twice."

- Heraclitus

"If you try to drown a fish, the ocean will laugh at you."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"I will instruct you and show you the way to go; with my eye on you, I will give counsel."

- Psalm 32:8

"Desiderata III"

- Dirk H. Wendt

"Desiderata IV"

- Dirk H. Wendt

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

- Terry Pratchett

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire"

- Gustav Mahler

""The story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability.""

- Amanda Zaluckyj

"I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense."

- Stephen Fincher

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."

- Juvenal

"“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”"

- Tahereh Mafi

"True wisdom dances to youthful tunes."

"A wise mind reads the stories between the lines."

"Simplicity holds the pearls of wisdom."

"The Cat finds lessons in each playful tale."

"Deep wisdom often wears the guise of whimsy."

"Listen to the whispers beneath life's clutter."

"Wisdom grows from roots of curiosity."

"With age, wear wisdom like a crown."

"The wisest of thoughts often lose themselves in play."

"Discover wisdom in every rhyme."

"Wisdom is a path paved with lessons only seen in hindsight."

"A dog may be man’s best friend … but the horse wrote history."

"Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo"

- Anonymous

"Lo barato cuesta caro."

"The light of winter is the poetry of patience."