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Quotes About Wisdom

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.
~ Donald McCaig
True wisdom always leads us to please God.
~ Anthony DeStefano
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
~ Linji Yixuan
He who understands the wise is wise already.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
~ Boonaa Mohammed
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
~ William Blake
That's the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.
~ Marc Maron
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
~ Gene Oliver
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
~ E. F. Schumacher
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!
~ Ali Sina
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.
~ Robyn Davidson
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
~ Anatole France
Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.
~ Beanie Sigel
Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.
~ Robert Thurman
People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.
~ Huangbo Xiyun
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
~ Aristophanes
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
~ Lysa TerKeurst