150+ Ancient Wisdom Quotes Every Person Should Know

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II

These violent delights have violent ends.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.