“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Jean de La Fontaine · Fables, Book II, 1668
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Wisdom Quotes
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286 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”
Robertson Davies
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.”
Frank Lloyd Wright · New York Times Magazine, 1953
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, c. 65 AD
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
Ernest Hemingway · The Wild Years, 1962
“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
Audrey Hepburn
“When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium fuel in it. You don't put in the wrong fuel.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic · I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 2011
“I don't need a trophy to tell me who I am.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
Buddha · widely attributed
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · widely attributed
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Rumi · widely attributed
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela · widely attributed
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.”
Henry Ford · widely attributed
“You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”
James Clear · Atomic Habits, 2018
“I am very lucky that I have freedom. Freedom is the greatest treasure.”
David Hockney · Interview, various sources 1990s-2000s
“I always think the most important thing is taste. And taste is a lot of hard work.”
David Hockney · Interview, 2011
“The moment you start thinking about being an artist, you're not really an artist anymore.”
David Hockney · Interviews and lectures, 1970s-1980s
