Quotes About Wisdom

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Many a truth is told in jest.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.