Wisdom Quotes
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.
You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.
