Wisdom Quotes

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

~ E. E. Cummings

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

~ Solon

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

~ King Solomon

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

~ Louise L. Hay

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

~ Johannes Tauler

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

~ Samuel Smiles

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

~ Plutarch

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

~ Robert Kennedy

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts.

~ Cornel West

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

~ Josh Billings

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

~ Saint Basil

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

~ Anthony Bourdain

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

~ Parker Palmer

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

~ Martin Luther King

What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

~ Herman Hesse

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

~ Ruth St. Denis

It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.

~ Donald Trump

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

~ John F. Kennedy

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

~ J. Michael Straczynski

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

~ Martin Luther King

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

~ Buddha

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

~ Jane Wyman

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

~ Bernie Siegel

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

~ Bruce Lipton

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

~ E. O. Wilson

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

~ Amitabh Bachchan

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

~ Jason Aldean

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

~ H. L. Mencken

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

~ Dale Turner

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

~ Euripides

Honesty is the best policy.

~ Benjamin Franklin

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

~ Alan Kay

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

~ George Allen

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

~ Nelson Mandela

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

~ Buddha

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

~ John Muir