Quotes for Wisdom

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Rumi

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Jay Weatherill

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

Lee Hsien Loong

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Daisaku Ikeda

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Hermann Hesse

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Dick Cheney

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

Charles Lindbergh

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

John Steinbeck

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Homer