Quotes for Wisdom

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Shakti Gawain

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Thomas Huxley

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Shakti Gawain

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Joan Rivers

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

William Penn

The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.

Xavier Rudd

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Anatole France