Wisdom Quotes

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore

Love, Enjoy, Learn

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Wise, Single, Few

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso

Busy, Fortune, Harvest

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

Good, Strength, Knowledge

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

Change, God, Courage

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Parenting, Peace, Happiness

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran

Selfish, Laugh, Proud

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science, Religion, Power

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

Power, Successful, Short

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

Life, Good, Mind

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran

Children, Laugh, Philosophy

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

Life, True, Understand

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

Love, Heart, Loving

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Hope, Less

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

Knowledge, Speaks, Listens

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Sleep, Silence, Nourishes

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson

Beauty, Jealous, Her

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sure, Might, Healthy

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Philosophy, Higher

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

Patriotism, Great, Power

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Done, Cannot

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

Change, Happiness, Often

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Poetry, Mean, Find

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, Pain, Heart

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Great, Pain

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