Wisdom Quotes

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Even the wise need wisdom.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.

As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.

Moderation in all things.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.

Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.