Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom Quote of the day

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Don’t wish it was easier. Wish you were better.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

The past has no power over the present moment.

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

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.The teevee debilitates our culture.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Positive words can bend your world in your favor.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

If we still advise we shall never do.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Human nature is all alike.

Lost Time is never found again.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

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

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.