Wisdom Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.
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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
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Collective wisdom depends on conversation and is most powerfully felt in the silences that arise within those conversations.
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
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The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
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It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
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I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
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To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
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Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.
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The great river follows its own course before joining the vast sea. Likewise, the soul follows equally varied routes and passes through different stages, receiving here and there tributaries of knowledge, strengthening its personality and perfecting its qualities before reaching the Ocean of Eternal Wisdom.
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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.
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The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.
