“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock · The Use of Life, 1894
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Wisdom Quotes
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286 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“It is not that I'm so brave, but that those who yield to grief accomplish nothing.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book XII
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book X
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.”
African Proverb
“A person is a person through other persons.”
Nguni Bantu Proverb · Ubuntu philosophy
“The one who tells the stories rules the world.”
Hopi Proverb
“A tree is straightened while it is young.”
African Proverb
“An elder who falls asleep at a meeting wakes up to bad decisions.”
Yoruba Proverb
“Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.”
Guinean Proverb
“When the music changes, so does the dance.”
Hausa Proverb
“Rain does not fall on one roof alone.”
Cameroonian Proverb
“The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.”
African Proverb
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
African Proverb
“Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
African Proverb
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
West African Proverb
