Words Of Wisdom Quotes

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

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

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

"Learning patience requires a great deal of patience."

"The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants."

"I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."

"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."

"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."

"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"

"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."

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

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."

"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."

"In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self."

"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived."

"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."

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

"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."

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."

"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace."

"A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace."

"I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through."

"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."

"A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy."

"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."

"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking."

"You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility."