Wisdom Quotes

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.