Wisdom Quotes
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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 -
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare -
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney -
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Quintilian -
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball -
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
Lactantius -
Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
Yehuda Berg
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I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.
Kirk Hammett Metallica -
You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
Brian Tracy -
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 -
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body.
Gautama Buddha -
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley -
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
Aristotle
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Wisdom is better than silver and gold
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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 -
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
Dalai Lama -
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.
Hafez
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
Hamza Yusuf -
You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
Baden Powell -
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle -
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Socrates