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Quotes About Wisdom

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
~ Xenophanes
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.
~ Gautama Buddha
Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.
~ Martin Laird
There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.
~ Chanakya
There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.
~ Peter V. Brett
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.
~ Jonas Salk
When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
~ Hugh Prather
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.
~ Aldo Leopold
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
~ Winston Churchill
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.
~ Jim Hightower
Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
~ Seneca the Younger
Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.
~ Daniel Smith
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
~ William Saroyan
To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
~ Sean Connery
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
~ Yevgeny Baratynsky