Wisdom Quotes

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

To understand the journey you have to do the walking.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Spiritual knowledge is fruitful only when it is applied

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

There is no wisdom save in truth.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.