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Quotes About Wisdom

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
~ Coventry Patmore
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
~ George Santayana
Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge
~ Dan Millman
You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
~ Nhat Hanh
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
~ Mitch Albom
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
~ Hosea Ballou
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
~ Eckhart Tolle
Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
~ Plato
We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
~ James Truslow Adams
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.
~ Hosea Ballou
The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.
~ Alistair Begg
The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
~ Laozi
Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.
~ Marianne Williamson
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
~ William Penn
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
~ Socrates
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
~ Samuel Johnson
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.
~ Michael Steinhardt
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
~ Seneca the Younger
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
~ Pindar
Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
~ Christopher Paolini