Wisdom Quotes

The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.

64329 quotes

J
"The conscience is a gift from God to guide us toward righteousness."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"True morality flows from a transformed heart, not external rules."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"Meditation on divine truth is essential to spiritual growth."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"The perfection of virtue lies in the surrender of self to God's will."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"True humility is the foundation of all spiritual virtue."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"Understanding our own depravity is the beginning of spiritual wisdom."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"The conscience, when properly trained, becomes an instrument of righteousness."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"True wisdom teaches us to value eternal things above temporal things."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"The practice of self-examination reveals our need for God's grace."
Jonathan Edwards
J
"The voice of conscience should be respected as an echo of God's law."
Jonathan Edwards
P
"The world was made for us to understand and transform through the power of love and consciousness"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
P
"We must learn to think in terms of wholes, not fragments"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
P
"To understand the future, you must understand the sacred"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
P
"The heart has truths that the mind alone cannot grasp"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
P
"The heart knows what the intellect must still learn"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
P
"Wisdom is the fruit of both experience and contemplation"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
P
"The integration of science and faith is not impossible but necessary"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
W
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
William James
W
"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."
William James
W
"For most of us, the world is found in our heads. We are what we think."
William James
W
"We are not only thinking creatures but feeling creatures above all."
William James
W
"The human being does not live by facts alone, but by the interpretation of facts and their personal meaning."
William James
W
"The quality of your thoughts will determine the quality of your experience of life itself."
William James
W
"Our passions shape our beliefs, and our beliefs shape our reality; therefore, choose them carefully."
William James
W
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind and still function."
William James
R
"What we think creates the world; therefore we must learn to think rightly."
Rudolf Steiner
"Wisdom dwells not in books alone but in the experience of the heart"
Charles Wesley
"Humility opens the door to greater understanding and growth"
Charles Wesley
F
"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
Friedrich Nietzsche
F
"The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do."
Friedrich Nietzsche