Wisdom Quotes

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Earl Of Chesterfield 1694

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is th beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell 1872

In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fouth practicing, the fifth -- teaching others.
Ibn Gabirol 1020C

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D Roosevelt 1882

Knowledge comes, but wisdom stays.
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809

Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the success and wisdom of the future.
Tyron Edwards 1809

The reward of all action is to be found in enlightenment.
Bhagavad-Gita

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Wisdom is not in words. Wisdom is meaning within words

Be with wise men and become wise.
Proverbs 13:20

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Serenity Prayer

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
Lao-Tze 604BC

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

What wisdom can find that is greater than kindness?

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Hugh White

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.
Louis Finkelstein

Kindness is more important than wisdom,and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Edward Thorndike

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H Fischer

A wise man\'s bosom is the safe of his secrets.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection it, will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.







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