Wisdom Quotes

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative." "High office teaches decision-making, not substance." "Live your life. The truth of the matter is, play the game which you understand best. " "A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none." "Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth." "Try to be wrong once in a while, it’ll do your ego good." "The best revenge is not to be like your enemy " "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature " "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury " "We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." "To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves" "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday" "Reflective thinking turns experience into insight " "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." "He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career." "All great truths begin as blasphemies." "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." "Knowing when and when not to engage is the key to winning battles." "Supreme excellence lies in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."