Wisdom Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

The best cure for anger is delay.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.

Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Socialism is a dead horse.

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Be patient and keep faith. It will all fall into place.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.