wisdom quotes

“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.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”

— William Shakespeare

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

— Edmund Burke

“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. ”

— William Shakespeare

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

“Death is a fearful thing.”

— William Shakespeare

“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

“It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”

— Edward Estlin Cummings

“Life is just a journey.”

— Princess Diana

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

— George Washington Carver

“Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.”

— Stephen Covey

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

— Joseph Campbell

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

“Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.”

— Cate Blanchett

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

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