Wisdom Quotes

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosoph...

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is no...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we...

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the s...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do ...

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses...

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a differen...

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,...

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are p...

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese peo...

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afrai...

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be empe...

A path is made by walking on it.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but th...

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon wha...

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst c...

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, ...

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself nee...

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just becaus...

Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

"Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. ...

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us - A chasm whose depths we cannot see.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

We are not judges of each other's hearts; that belongs to a higher tribunal.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a rive...

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaini...

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the...

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and...

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, the...

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its...

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great...

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual a...

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personall...

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be ...

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

A house divided cannot stand.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsibl...

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to b...

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuo...

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the...

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to s...

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equalit...

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a ...

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

402Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you...

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of ...

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation ...

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable...

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stic...

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short wh...

I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage – very...