Wisdom Quotes

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dis...

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human ...

Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting togeth...

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that t...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance...

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an a...

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is ...

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life ...

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and author...

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, em...

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities w...

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt,...

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in...

Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all ...

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man...

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can mak...

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than b...

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your st...

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even be...

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the ...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self ...

In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you in...

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, an...

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how ...

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman ...

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his...

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are ...

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into ano...

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. ...

One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he wo...

Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the t...

God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I she...

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longe...

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true...

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words a...

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

Two footsteps do not make a path.

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was...

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when yo...

Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by k...

The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with w...

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the pers...

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration,...

Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One th...

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:...

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

All pain is the same.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbeliever...

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must adm...

It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wis...

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not lo...

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that ...

«Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it....

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistak...

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that t...

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They ar...

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusi...

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's i...

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And ...

Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a...

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clea...

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-...