Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares."
Tortoises quotes
Tortoises
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Terry Pratchett
Author
"One day a tortoise will learn how to fly."
Sappho
Poet
"I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument."
Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions."
Explore further
Topics related to Tortoises
Browse quotes that often appear alongside tortoises — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Tortoises quotes (page 1 of 2)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise."
Read quote
9 likes
"Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise"
Read quote
8 likes
"Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that."
Read quote
7 likes
"The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises)."
Read quote
4 likes
"A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window."
Read quote
4 likes
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."
Read quote
4 likes
"The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself."
Read quote
3 likes
"The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning."
Read quote
3 likes