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Wisdom Quotes
"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
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"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"Once you face the truth, the knowledge both empowers you and sets you free."
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"Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in the boundaries of rational thought."
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"Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments..."
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"It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Greek at eighty; SophoclesWrote his grand Oedipus, and SimonidesBore off the prize of verse from his compeers,When each had numbered more than fourscore years,And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten,Had but begun his Characters of Men.Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales,At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales;Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,Completed Faust when eighty years were past,These are indeed exceptions; but they showHow far the gulf-stream of our youth may flowInto the arctic regions of our lives.Where little else than life itself survives."
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"He who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better."
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"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"The more deeper you think, the more silent you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point."
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"At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment."
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"Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others."
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"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."
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"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another."
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"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."
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"I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or for fame, or power, or any of these inferior things, but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity. For it was from lust of power that the Angels fell, from lust of knowledge that man fell, but of charity there can be no excess, neither did angel or man come in danger by it."
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"A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us."
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"Asking questions is an essential daily habit, because your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask."
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"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
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"Peace is a very powerful approach than war, choose peace when solving any problem in the world."
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"Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons."
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"These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be."
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