Wisdom Quotes

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

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

An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.