Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom is not bought.

Not even God is wise enough.

Anonymous: Early Miscellaneous

If only, when one heardThat Old Age was comingOne could bolt the door,Answer "Not at home"And refuse to meet him!

Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse [Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls].

Cave ab homine unius libri [Beware the man of one book].

Quos [or Quem] deus vult perdere prius dementat [Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad].

Errare humanum est [To err is human].

There was a man in our town,And he was wondrous wise;He jumped into a bramble bushAnd scratched out both his eyes.

The eggs do not teach the hen.

When you befriend old men you realize how innocent the human race is.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

21. 12. 2022. Anselm Grun: Živi i rasti 56 str.

Animals feed themselves, men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating.

Turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.

You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.

Mistakes are never frowned upon as a piece of glaring inefficiency, but are regarded as very good lessons for us by which we can profit to the fullest extent.

That is why the truth is in the hands of unofficial folk.

magna est veritas, et praevalebit.1

Maybe that's enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

The only antidote to being duped is a thorough knowledge of and passion for Truth.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.