Wisdom Quotes

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.

Tears are liquid love.

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.