Quotes About Wisdom

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.