Wisdom Quotes

"In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit."

"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work."

"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."

"A short saying often contains much wisdom."

"Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore."

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors."

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

"Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality."

"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."

"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."

"Once you label me you negate me."

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise."

"Suffering is one of life's great teachers."

"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself."

"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."

"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."

"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."

"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."

"If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom."

"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."

"If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit."

"If you want to go east, don't go west."

"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."

"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'"

"Man is only great when he acts from passion."

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense."

"Plodding wins the race."

"Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom."

"The doors of wisdom are never shut."