Wisdom Quotes

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.