Quotes About Wisdom

Be too great, like the Sun, to retaliate when lesser men throw stones at you.

Beautiful thoughts precede a beautiful life.

Books are companions; choose your companions wisely.

Books are kinder teachers than experience.

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Educate your mind, knowledge is power. Guard your heart, life springs from it.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their natures.

God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe.

He who is wise is steps away from riches. He who is loving is steps away from God.

Higher thoughts lead to a higher life.

Learn, and you will live; live, and you will learn.

Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.

Listen more. Learn more. Love more. Live more.

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

Love is the greatest ornament in your heart; wisdom is the greatest ornament in your mind.

Mistakes are lessons inside out.

Never cut down a tree whose shade you might need tomorrow.

Ordinary people knock on doors, warriors break them down, but sages enter through the window.

Outer beauty will take you miles; inner beauty will take you around the world.

Pearls of wisdom are better than necklaces of diamonds.

Raise your thoughts, not your fists.

Reading is the best cure for ignorance.

School is a temple of knowledge, the library is a temple of wisdom, and Church is a temple of God.

Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest.