150+ Ancient Wisdom Quotes Every Person Should Know

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

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.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.