150+ Ancient Wisdom Quotes Every Person Should Know

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The sun always shines above the clouds.

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

It takes a very long time to become young.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.