Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
SophoclesSophocles Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.
Caroline MyssCaroline Myss There is a certain kind of light that only comes from having been through a certain kind of darkness.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr. But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Alan WattsAlan Watts It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother TeresaMother Teresa