Wisdom Quotes

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Study the past if you would define the future.

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

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

Nothing is infallible. Nothing is binding forever. Everything is subject to inquiry and examination.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age.

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

The doer alone learneth.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The wisest men in every age have reached the same conclusion about life: it's no good ... What does this prove? What does it demonstrate? ... Perhaps wisdom appears on earth as a raven, inspired by a little scent of carrion?