A Quote by Juvenal

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal

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Fortune Wisdom

Quote Author

Juvenal
Roman - Poet
60 - 130

Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.

Rza

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

Laozi

Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

Mas Oyama

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

Aristotle

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

Laozi

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

Laozi

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

Philippa Gregory

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.