Wisdom Quotes

You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

You can do anything, but not everything.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

Unless and until you introspect you cannot even respect yourself. You cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what's wrong.

There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.