Wisdom Quotes

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

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

All new news is old news happening to new people

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

Only the wounded physician heals.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.