150+ Ancient Wisdom Quotes Every Person Should Know

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.