712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” — Henry Ford

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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” — Socrates

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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” — Confucius

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“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” — Confucius

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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” — Aeschylus

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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.” — Aeschylus

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“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.” — John Wooden

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“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.” — Plautus

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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand

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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.” — William Feather

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“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” — Logan P. Smith

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“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” — Lao Tzu

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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.” — H. L. Mencken

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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” — Socrates

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“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Every man is a d--n fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.” — Plato

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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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