Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Wisdom.
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies
Muslih-uddin Sadi
Wind is renewable. Turbines are not.
Ozzie Zehner
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Young
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
William Dunbar
I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
Ray LaMontagne
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
Gautama Buddha
To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
Fernando Pessoa
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian Casablancas
May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.
D. Simone
... life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole...
Jane Addams
It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
Mary E. Pearson
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
Thomas Reid
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin.
Rumi
People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.
Lynn Marie Sager
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.
Mark Twain
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
C.S. Lewis