Quotes About Wisdom

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

Years teach us more than books.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.