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Quotes About Wisdom

Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
~ Omar Khayyam
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
~ Robert Jordan
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
~ Anne Bradstreet
Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.
~ Mahesh Babu
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
~ Herbie Hancock
Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!
~ Joyce Meyer
Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
~ Tryon Edwards
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
~ Oscar Wilde
Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.
~ Konrad Adenauer
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
~ Sam Levenson
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood
~ Umar
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
~ Chanakya
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
~ Cato the Elder
The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
~ Francis Bacon
madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom
~ Hermann Hesse
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
~ George Santayana
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
~ Anonymous