Quotes About Wisdom

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

You are still mortal and therefore you are going to make mistakes.

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and the deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.

He that will not reflect is a ruined man.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.

With innovation & creativity find ways to reach your goals, but never neglect the experiences you gain on your way to reach the goal. These experiences will help make you a better person and will prepare you for bigger things in future.

Growing up increases your ability to focus on important things as well as increasing your ability to let go of unnecessary things with less effort.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

It is wisdom to know others; It is enlightenment to know one's self.

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.

The high peak of knowledge is perfect self-knowledge.

Through suffering comes wisdom.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.

You will regret that cell-phone self-portrait in the bathroom mirror one day.

Do not spit into the well that you might need to drink out of.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Copy if you must. Lead if you can. Make mistakes and learn from them. Copying good things is fine. We cannot always be an innovator.