Wisdom Quotes

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Beauty is a King that needs to be obeyed

Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light.

Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom.

God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.

Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

If we still advise we shall never do.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.