Wisdom quotes
551 quotes. Authors include Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Maslow, Aeschylus, Aesop, Afrika Bambaataa, Akhenaten, Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, Alexander Pope, Alexandre Dumas, Amber Valletta, Amelia Earhart, Anatole France, Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, Anton Chekhov, Archimedes, Aristotle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Audrey Hepburn, Augustine of Hippo, Avery Brooks, Ayn Rand, Baltasar Gracián, Barack Obama, Barbara De Angelis, Basil of Caesarea, Ben Fountain.
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“Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.”
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“One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”
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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
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“If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.”
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“Applause is a receipt, not a bill.”
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“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”
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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
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“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
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“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
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“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
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“Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.”
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“Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.”
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“You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.”
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“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
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“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”
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“To lead people walk behind them.”
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“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
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“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
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“One should train in deeds of merit—generosity, a balanced life, developing a loving mind—that yield long-lasting happiness.”
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“These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future.”
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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.”
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“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
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“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
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“Give, even if you only have a little.”
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“It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.”
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“Appearances are often deceiving.”
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”
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“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
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“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
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“By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure.”
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“We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.”
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“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.”
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“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
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“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.”
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“The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.”
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“Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what's right for you.”
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“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
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“A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.”
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“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
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“If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across? – The Buddha”
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“We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.”
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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
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“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
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“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”