Wisdom Quotes

"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"

"A cheerful heart is good medicine"

"A house divided against itself shall not stand"

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"A poem should not mean But be."

"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth"

"All men are created equal."

"All men must die."

"Allegory of the Cave"

"Be a philosopher, but amidst all your philosophy be still a man."

"Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way."

"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."

"Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble."

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."

"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was."

"But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."

"Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour."

"Die a hero or...become the villain."

"Don't cross the streams."

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

"Eat, drink, and be merry."

"Existence precedes essence"

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

"For sale: Baby shoes, never worn."

"Four score and seven years ago…"

"From the mouths of babes"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

"Get back to where you once belonged!"

"God doesn't play dice with the world."

"God sees everything"

"Golden Rule"

"Good fences make good neighbors."

"Good night, and good luck."

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."

"Heal the world, make it a better place."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"I cannot tell a lie"

"I celebrate myself"

"I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am."

"I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."

"I have been changed for good."

"I hope, or I could not live."

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

"I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys."

"I think, therefore I am."

"I'm starting with the man in the mirror"

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars."

"If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

"It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it."

"It is more blessed to give than to receive."

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

"It is written."

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

"Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

"Kid, you'll move mountains!"

"Know thyself."

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

"Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."

"Life can only be understood backwards."

"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

"Live in the layers, not on the litter."

"Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities."

"Love the sinner and hate the sin."

"Love thy neighbor as thyself"

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."

"Maybe Christmas, perhaps...means a little bit more!"

"Miles to go before I sleep."

"Money is the root of all evil."

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."

"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

"My candle burns at both ends"

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."

"My people hath been lost sheep."

"No one does wrong voluntarily."

"Not all those who wander are lost."

"Of Man's first disobedience"

"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them"

"One thing I can tell you is you got to be free."

"Philosopher King"

"Pride comes before the fall."

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

"Religion is the opium of the people."

"Right is right, and wrong is wrong."

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away"

"So the last shall be first, and the first last."

"So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!"

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."

"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"The art of losing isn’t hard to master"

"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—"

"The Christian religion cannot be believed by any reasonable person."

"The love of money is the root of all evil."

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"The only two certainties in life are death and taxes."

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."

"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."

"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one"

"There is no Frigate like a Book"

"There is no new thing under the sun."

"There is no one alive that is you-er than you!"

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

"This is a man's world. But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

"Thoughts without content are empty."

"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

"To everything there is a season."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"Tomorrow will worry about itself."

"Tread lightly."

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart."

"Two are better than one."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"Very superstitious, writing's on the wall. Very superstitious, ladder's 'bout to fall."

"War is not won by victory."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."

"We speak student."

"We the people…"

"We're all damaged somehow."

"What happens to a dream deferred?"

"What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?"

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."

"Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there."

"Why are there beings at all, instead of nothing?"

"Words can be like X-Rays if you use them properly – they'll go through anything."

"Ye are fallen from grace."

"Ye suffer fools gladly."

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"You don't have to live forever. You just have to live."

"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change."

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."