Wisdom Quotes

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

~ Oscar Wilde

Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.

~ Kim Gruenenfelder

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

~ Criss Jami

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

~ Anonymous

Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy.

~ Gary L. Francione

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

~ Ray Bradbury

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

~ Jodi Picoult

You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.

~ Siobhan Vivian

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

~ Oscar Wilde

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

~ Thomas Fuller

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.

~ Nicholas Sparks

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

~ Sarah Dessen

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

~ Karl R. Popper

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

~ Terry Pratchett

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

~ Lao Tzu

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

~ Jack Kerouac

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

~ Wallace Stegner

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

~ Brian Tracy

Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

~ Gary L. Francione

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

~ Susan Sontag

Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.

~ R.l. Lafevers

Penetrate deep into the word Om. Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.

~ Amit Ray

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

~ Margaret Thatcher

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

~ Benjamin Franklin

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.

~ Hermann Hesse

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

~ Brian Tracy

I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.

~ Marissa Meyer

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

~ Robert Burns

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

~ Dion Boucicault

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

~ Robert Jordan

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

~ Marcus Porcius Cato