Quotes About Wisdom

The truth shall make you free.

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

As long as you think you're green, you'll grow. As soon as you think you're ripe, you'll rot.

It's always failures that seem to have all the answers. Don't buy into losers' opinions. Think for yourself. You know better than them.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don't trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary to that of older men, and especially to that of your own parents. Age gives experience, and therefore deserves respect.

To be able to look back on ones past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Finding a peace within yourself is not condoning your actions but learning from your reaction.

Most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Remember all the answers you need are inside of you. You only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

If you want to know all about

Proclaim not all thou knowest

I know everything except myself

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Pray as if everything depends on God and work as if everything depends on you. To handle yourself use your brain and to handle others use your heart.

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.