Wisdom Quotes

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

O Allah, You know that the only thing I want in this life Is to be obedient to Your command. Even the living sight of my eyes Is service at your court

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

If you lack wisdom in regard to a problem, you need to go to God in prayer.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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

O Lord... Once I wanted You so much I didn't even dare walk past Your house- And now I am not even worthy to be let in

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.