Wisdom Quotes
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With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.
Omar Khayyam
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
Socrates
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
W. Clement Stone
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius
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You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
Brian Tracy
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck
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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.
Epicurus
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True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Socrates
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Joel Osteen
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Wisdom is better than silver and gold
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
Aristotle
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Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
Lloyd Alexander
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Oscar Wilde
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney
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You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
Baden Powell
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
Albert Einstein
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We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore