Quotes About Wisdom

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Strength is but one aspect of power.

Battles are not won by strength alone!

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

You can't get old without living.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.