Quotes About Wisdom

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

I hope I die before I get old.

Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.