Wisdom Quotes

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

~ Sigmund Freud

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

~ James Allen

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

~ Horace

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

~ Hal Borland

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

~ Joan Rivers

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

~ Xi Jinping

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

~ Orson F. Whitney

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

~ Ted Cruz

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

~ Christopher Reeve

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

~ Kris Kristofferson

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

~ Richard Dawkins

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

~ Albert Einstein

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

~ Thomas J. Watson

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

~ James Prescott Joule

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

~ Orson Pratt

No man was ever wise by chance.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

~ Cat Cora

Talent is God-given be humble. Fame is man-given be thankful. Conceit is self-given be careful.

~ Harvey Mackay

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

~ Denis Mcdonough

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

~ John Wooden

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

~ Aeschylus

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

~ Helen Mirren

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

~ Charles Spurgeon

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

~ Jose Bergamin

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

~ Joseph Prince

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

~ David Brainerd

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

~ Ravi Zacharias

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

~ Johannes Tauler

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

~ Anton Chekhov

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

~ Charles Spurgeon

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

~ Brian O'driscoll

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

~ Khalil Gibran