Wisdom Quotes

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.