Wisdom Quotes

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

~ Abraham H. Maslow

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

~ Thomas Fuller

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

~ Socrates

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, the more knowledge the more grief.

~ Anonymous

Is it so far from madness to wisdom? - Daenerys Targaryen

~ George R.r. Martin

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

~ C. Joybell C.

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

~ Victor Hugo

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

~ Winston S. Churchill

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

~ Orson Scott Card

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

~ Horace

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

~ Mario Andretti

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

~ John F. Kennedy

There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

~ J. Sterling

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

~ Petar Dunov

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

~ Edward Abbey

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

~ Hermann Hesse

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

~ Charles M. Schulz

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

~ Pittacus Lore

Cleverness is not wisdom.

~ Euripides

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

~ Isaac Asimov

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

~ Aristotle

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

~ Frank Herbert

If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Adventure is not outside man, it is within.

~ George Eliot

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

~ Gertrude Stein

Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang taong malapit sayo. Gamitin ang utakpara alagaan ang sarili mo.

~ Bob Ong

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

~ Voltaire

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Being alive is sign of strength!

~ Hiro Mashima

Wherever I go, I meet myself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

~ Jasper Fforde

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

~ Claudia Gray