Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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William Shakespeare
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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Paulo Coelho
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Aristotle
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
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Paulo Coelho
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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Confucius
More Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.
A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.
Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.
I don't pray because it makes sense to pray. I pray because my life doesn't make sense without prayer.
