Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

Honor de Balzac

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.

Bryant McGill

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841

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

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu 604BC

The highest wisdom is loving kindness.

Talmud

We lead first by example! Everything we say or do sends a message, sets a tone, or teaches people what to do or what not to do.

Sheila M. Bethel

We lead first by example! Everything we say or do sends a message, sets a tone, or teaches people what to do or what not to do.

Sheila M. Bethel

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet 1898

Never under any circumstances say that meditation and wisdom are different; they are one unity, not two things. Meditation itself is the substance of wisdom; wisdom itself is the function of meditation.

Hui-neng

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Montaigne

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

John Kenneth Gilbraith

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Peter Abelard

The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. -

Michael de Montaigne

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence

Unknown

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

A fence to wisdom is silence.

Akiba ben Joseph

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

James Allen

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