Wisdom Quotes

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their ‘wisdom.’ I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

Some things come with their own punishments.

Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read and the people you meet.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.