150+ Ancient Wisdom Quotes Every Person Should Know

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

We're on the same boat but in different cabin

You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.