Wisdom Quotes

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

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"Do not fail to practice these virtues: obedience, poverty, and chastity."
Teresa of Avila
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"A single act of obedience is better than a hundred acts of penance."
Teresa of Avila
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"Blessed is the one who sees the divine in all things."
Teresa of Avila
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"The soul grows by what it feeds upon."
Teresa of Avila
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"Wisdom is knowing what truly matters."
Teresa of Avila
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"The heart knows truths the mind cannot comprehend."
Teresa of Avila
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"The greatest wealth is spiritual poverty."
Teresa of Avila
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"Humility is the foundation of all virtue."
Teresa of Avila
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"Wisdom is not the accumulation of facts, but the understanding of their meaning."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"To know yourself is the beginning of all true wisdom."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Poverty is my pride."
Ibn Arabi
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"The Real is hidden by the Real."
Ibn Arabi
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"The tongue of the heart speaks a language the ear cannot hear."
Ibn Arabi
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"The intellect is but a candle; divine light is the sun."
Ibn Arabi
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"The Perfect Man is the mirror of God's perfection."
Ibn Arabi
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"The seeker finds what he seeks within himself."
Ibn Arabi
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"Knowledge without love is hollow."
Ibn Arabi
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"True wealth is contentment of the heart."
Ibn Arabi
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"Understanding comes through the heart, not the mind alone."
Ibn Arabi
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"The heart possesses knowledge the reason cannot attain."
Ibn Arabi
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"Perfection is the realization of God's will within yourself."
Ibn Arabi
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"Humility opens the doors of divine knowledge."
Ibn Arabi
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"The path of truth is illuminated by divine light."
Ibn Arabi
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"Wisdom is the lost treasure of the believer."
Ibn Arabi
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"Spiritual maturity is found in becoming nothing so that God can be everything."
John of the Cross
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"To reach satisfaction in all things, desire its possession in nothing."
John of the Cross
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"The path to wisdom begins with the acknowledgment of our own ignorance."
John of the Cross
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"Wisdom is knowing what truly matters and letting go of what does not."
John of the Cross
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"The dark contemplation of God's infinity humbles the proud soul."
John of the Cross
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"Wisdom teaches us that all we possess will one day be taken from us."
John of the Cross