What Is Wisdom Quotes

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

Cheap booze is a false economy.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

The night is still waiting.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

Wisdom comes from reflection.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Hope without love is hopeless.

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.