Wisdom quotes

Discover profound wisdom through our curated collection of inspirational quotes. Gain insight and enlightenment as you explore the depths of human knowledge and experience.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior

- Confucius

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get.

- Confucius

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

- Confucius

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

- Confucius

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. And the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Buddha

Do everything in moderation, even moderation.

- Confucius

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

- Publilius Syrus

Speech is a mirror of the soul: As a man speaks, so is he.

- Publilius Syrus

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.

- Publilius Syrus

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

- Publilius Syrus

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

- Publilius Syrus

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

- Publilius Syrus

Never thrust your own sickle into another’s corn.

- Publilius Syrus

Love’s wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

- Publilius Syrus

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

- Publilius Syrus

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

- Publilius Syrus

Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

- Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

- Publilius Syrus

Debt is the slavery of the free.

- Publilius Syrus

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

- Publilius Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

- Publilius Syrus

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the arts.

- Confucius

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

- Buddha

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one.

- Confucius

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

- Confucius

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

- Buddha

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

- Buddha

Nothing is forever except change.

- Buddha

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

- Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

- Buddha