Quotes About Wisdom

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We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Marilyn Monroe

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Terry Pratchett

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Never laugh at live dragons.

J.R.R. Tolkien

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

Alexandre Dumas

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Daphne Rae

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Abigail Van Buren