Wisdom Quote by Mark Twain — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

“I can last two months on a good compliment.”

“The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.”

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are”

“But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

“The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.”

“You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.”