Quotes About Wisdom

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

We learn from failure, not from success!

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.