Quotes About Wisdom

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

I'd rather be happy than right.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

Happiness, at my age, is breathing

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.