Wisdom Quotes

Life's lessons aren't always new. Often they're the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The more you know, the more you know you know nothing.

~ Markus W. Lunner

Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.

~ S.d. Lawendowski

No one ever pays to learn the most important things.

~ Neel Burton

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Acquiring of wisdom is a function of inquisitiveness for information and keenness for learning. Plenty of resource and the gravity of flow will ensure a momentum good enough for learning.

~ Priyavrat Thareja

While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

~ Criss Jami

To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.

~ T.f. Hodge

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

~ Idries Shah

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

~ Robert Samuelson

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

~ Ellis Peters

Why should each generation be brought up on the selective prejudices of the one before it? I believe that this is exactly the point of history. And not just reading or studying history but also approaching it with a sceptical bent of mind. When each generation approaches received wisdom with scepticism, perhaps it will reassess established notions of right and wrong, love and hate. Perhaps it will finally see mistaken priorities for what they really are. Perhaps it will do something that previous generations steadfastly refused to do.

~ Sidin Vadukut

He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. I will tell you, Loran what is of importance is not that there may be nothing. We have always acknowledged that as a possibility. What is important is that if indeed there is nothing, then we should be prepared to make something out of the one thing we have left to us -- ourselves. I do not know what else to tell you, Loran. No one is in possession of all wisdom. No one. Gershon sat in silence, looking at Nathan Malkuson.

~ Chaim Potok

Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

~ Benny Bellamacina

Education is a process of unlearning and learning.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

~ Criss Jami

You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

~ Idries Shah

You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

~ Idries Shah

Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

~ Shannon L. Alder

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

~ Idries Shah

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

~ Idries Shah

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

~ Idries Shah

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.Excerpt from Living in Light, Love & Truth. (Page 3).

~ Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

~ Amy Neftzger

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

~ John Lubbock

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

~ Tim Fargo

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

~ Graham O'connell

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

~ Jasper Sole

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

~ Idries Shah

Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved.

~ Amit Kalantri

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

~ Idries Shah