Wisdom quotes
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak … sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go- Unknown
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.--ECKHART TOLLE
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.― Eleanor Roosevelt
Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing.
The difference between a wise and foolish man is this--the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks.--WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.-- Zora Neale Hurston
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut. --Korean
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.― Jess C. Scott
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.--HERMANN HESSE
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact-- Henry James
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.― Isaac Asimov
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.--
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.- Albert Einstein
Just because something is common sense doesn't mean it's common practice.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.― Mark Twain
Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
You may not have very much sense. But if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will not be long before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom.--ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.― Abigail Van Buren
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.-- Sun Tzu
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.--WALTER LIPPMANN