Wisdom Quotes

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Nothing is part of everything.

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Those who hate rain hate life.

Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

Love is almost never simple.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Do not expect too much from the world. We are here to give not to take.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day.

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.