Wisdom Quotes

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Be as you wish to seem.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.