“When the music changes, so does the dance.”
Hausa Proverb
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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“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
“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Jean de La Fontaine · Fables, Book II, 1668
“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
