Wisdom Quotes

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable

Richard Byrd

Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.

Wu Cheng'en

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Brian Tracy

When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange -- my youth.

Sara Teasdale

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

Margaret Bonanno

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

Catherynne M. Valente

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood, That scarlet tree within, which has the power To make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

Osbert Sitwell

The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical. All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

L. Ron Hubbard

The one who can make full sense of love and lives within its narrow expections undresses no weeping face.

Darmie Orem

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Joe Abercrombie

Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.

Titus Lucretius Carus

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

Confucius

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

Georg Baselitz

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Shannon A. Thompson

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.

Francis Bacon

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

Friedrich Schiller

I do, I am

Benny Bellamacina