Quotes for Wisdom

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

John F. Kennedy

Once you label me you negate me.

Soren Kierkegaard

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Pablo Picasso

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Teri Garr

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Og Mandino

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Ausonius

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Anthony Hopkins

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Milan Kundera

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Hugh Jackman

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

Maimonides

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead