Wisdom Quotes

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

~ Satchel Paige

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

~ Saint Basil

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

~ Rumi

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

~ Afrika Bambaataa

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

~ Benjamin Franklin

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

~ Charles Dickens

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

~ Samuel Johnson

It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.

~ Ciara

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

~ Joseph Campbell

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

~ Alex Grey

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

~ Howard Rheingold

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

~ Norman Douglas

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

~ Bruce Eric Kaplan

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

~ Thomas A. Edison

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

~ Michael Jordan

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

~ Calvin Coolidge

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

~ Herman Melville

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

~ Robert South

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

~ John Muir

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

~ Epictetus

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

~ Sidney Hook

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

~ Martin Luther King

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

~ Plato

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

~ Dean Ornish

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

~ Tom Brown

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

~ John F. Kennedy

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

~ John Cheever

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

~ Tony Dungy

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

~ William J. Clinton

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

~ Xenophanes

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

~ Ruth Glick

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Simon Van Booy

Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

~ Saint Bernard

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

~ Phil Jackson

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

~ Radhanath Swami

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

~ Xenophanes