Wisdom Quotes

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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious.
Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
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 Niebuh
It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.
Richard Needham
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.
Bias
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
John Milton
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.
Persian Prove
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide - Angle lens.
Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln