“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain · Notebook, 1904
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Wisdom Quotes
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286 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
Bill Keane · Family Circus, widely attributed
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
Viktor Frankl · Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology, 399 BC
“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
Margaret Mitchell
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
Kahlil Gibran · Sand and Foam, 1926
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
Dorothy Thompson
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
Jim Rohn
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”
Washington Irving
