Quotes About Wisdom

Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.