Quotes About Wisdom

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

If you lack wisdom in regard to a problem, you need to go to God in prayer.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.