Quotes About Wisdom

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

Patience is the road to wisdom.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door.

The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.

Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.