Top Ten Famous Wisdom Quotes

1. Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow.
   James Dean
   
   
   
2. We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
   Oliver Wendell Holmes
   
   
   
3. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
   Plato
   
   
   
4. A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.
   Chinese Proverb
   
   
   
5. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
   William Wordsworth
   
   
   
6. More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
   Antoine De Saint-Exupery
   
   
   
7. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
   Jean Paul
   
   
   
8. Turn your wounds into wisdom.
   Oprah Winfrey




9. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
   Walter Lippmann
   
   
   
10. To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
    Akhenaton