Wisdom Quotes

My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.