Top 15 Oldest Wisdom Quotes
#1. The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.
Sri Chinmoy
#2. All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Francis Bacon
#3. He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#5. The tallest and oldest trees that seemed to have just have casually always been there, hold the greatest love: as it nurtures love for others: providing shade for two lovers, becoming home for birds to build a nest, and giving food to the squirrels whom scurry upon it.
Forrest Curran
#6. My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
Alexander Wang
#8. In the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#9. Quick-Draw Carl, who still wore the broad-brimmed brown hat of his legendary dad, Sheriff Rick.
Jonathan Maberry
#10. If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.
John Wood
#11. We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.
Anthony Trollope
#12. To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
Christina Ricci
#13. The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
Emma Thompson
#14. The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
Mason Cooley
#15. Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Fulton J. Sheen