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Wisdom Quotes


"Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret."


"Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution."


"Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable,take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away."


"Perspective is the key to everything."



"You don't have to be rich to understand time conversion."


"The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction by choice and by design."


"Follow your heart, not the latest headlines."


"Promises are only as strong as the person who gives them ..."


"The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently."


"Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems."


"You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet."


"Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise."


"A sage benefits from his mistakes more than a fool benefits from his triumphs."



"Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity."


"You can live without many wants."


"A bad magician never gets the good props."


"Wisdom to accept change creates life, but conformity creates stagnation and leads to death."


"When I look at people fighting with ammunition and weapons of all kind I ponder within me;somehow as a cynic. Ammunition's and weapons are good for war; Yes,they are better necessities to winning battle but the best choice of weapons are neither ammunition nor the strength of a battalion of army but wisdom; a pen on a paper backed by a great mind."


"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."


"Knowledge makes you strong, understanding makes you formidable, wisdom makes you powerful, and love makes you invincible."


"There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough."


"A sage's tongue is a little less than a prophet's. A prophet's tongue is a little less than an angel's."


"Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures."


"Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment."


"Knowledge is beautiful but wisdom is magnificent."


"Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise."



"God's wisdom makes Christians different from other people."


"Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can't see."


"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."


"An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions."


"If you wish gain understanding, turn away from evil."


"But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with them. If you try to understand them, they may entangle and get hold of you, and then where will you be? Hide your mind from them, and hide them from your mind. Stick to the plain common sense of life. There will always be a tomorrow rather like today. At least so far there always has been a fairly similar tomorrow. Once or twice lately there have been jolts... Try not to notice these jolts. 'It is no good meeting trouble halfway."


"Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?..."
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