Wisdom Quotes

We are only able to get into the possession of Wisdom and get closer to Truth when and if we realize that all the knowledge and experience concentrated in the mind only hamper us in our awakening to Truth.

~ Frank Wanderer

When someone studies well, has a successful career, or deals with difficulties well, people think he is a wise man. However, such successes do not mean that one is wise. True wisdom is to know with the consciousness of God.

~ Woo Myung

People and situations always show us what we need to see and learn about ourselves, and when we take responsibility for our own feelings, how others treat us also changes. Everything in life is there to teach us something about ourselves. Don’t blame others, or try to separate yourself from them. Be grateful that they are helping you to become conscious of yourself and your own ego-mind an consciousness.

~ Mada Eliza Dalian

In life, every experience of a peak always follows the experience of a valley and we go back and forth between them. […] Until you understand that both the peaks and the valleys are inevitable and will eventually pass, and you disidentify from both sides, you will miss seeing your unmoving center, which is untouched by your thoughts, feelings or experiences.

~ Mada Eliza Dalian

Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

~ Larry Dossey

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

~ Novalis

[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.

~ Larry Dossey

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.

~ Larry Dossey

You always have a choice to know your life and live with the understanding or simply give up, to the daily pressure of life.

~ Roshan Sharma

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it.

~ Jiulio Consiglio

Never again! commanded his will. Again! Tomorrow! begged his heart.

~ Hermann Hesse

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Knowing is never the same with understanding.

~ Joshua Suya Pelicano

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures & wisdom progresses.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit.

~ Sunday Adelaja

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself, the silly ones could never understand her wisdom, whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

~ Henry James

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.

~ Jill Telford

Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.

~ Zhuangzi

True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.

~ Johnathan Jena

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

~ Aristotle

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to put you right and guide you away from some groundless opinion.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

~ Raheel Farooq

Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.

~ Criss Jami

He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else.

~ Nikki Rowe

To understand the journey you have to do the walking.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

~ Anonymous

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

~ Bram Stoker

They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?...know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise.

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.

~ Hilda Van Stockum

Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.

~ Caleb Ricketts

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

~ Caleb Ricketts