wisdom quotes

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”

— Charlie Chaplin

“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Love and peace are eternal.”

— John Lennon

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”

— Mary Kay Ash

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”

— George Eliot

“Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.”

“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

— William Clement Stone

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles Swindoll

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Genius is sorrow's child.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

— William Shakespeare

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

— Edward Estlin Cummings

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”

“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

— Winston Churchill

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

— Edmund Burke

“A true man hates no one.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

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