Quotes About Wisdom

Solitude is the sacred space where wisdom speaks loudest, for in the quiet of our own company, we hear the echoes of our truest selves.

The truly intelligent person is one who knows when to use logic and when to rely on intuition.

The wise person is one who can see beyond the immediate and recognize the long-term consequences of their actions.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Wer leichter glaubt, wird schwerer klug.

Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy.

In the law of Moses, God forbade the judges to take a gift: "Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise and change the words of the just." (Deut. 16:19).

She wanted to warn them; they would waste their youth because they did not realise just how fleeting it was, and because most people did.

Hindsight really is a fucking wonderful thing.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.' – Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.' – Proverbs, 28:20 'Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!' – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10

No time like the present' Mrs Manley (The Lost Lover, 1696), 1663-1724 'From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure; Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure.' Elizabeth Thomas, 1675-1731 'What's done cannot be undone.' William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1606), 1564-1616

As my mum used to say, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

regrets were a waste of time.

My old mum always said, if brains was gunpowder he couldn't blow his fucking eyebrows off.

Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young!

Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679

move on but, as Aunt Dolly had pointed out to him on many occasions

Look after the pennies, and the pounds always looked after themselves.

His mother had always said, 'We are all guilty of something even if it is only laziness or ignorance.' He had never understood what she meant till now.

Your mum is gone, but you are a part of her legacy – while you live, she will never really be dead. You have her blood in your veins, and her wisdom in your mind. Your child will be a part of her even though she is gone.

Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well.

One day, you'll wake up and thirty or forty years will have flown by.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.' – 1 Corinthians 13:11 'The children of perdition are oft'times made instruments even of the greatest work.' – Ben Jonson, 1637-1673