Wisdom Quotes

"We must remember that true victory is not the defeat of the enemy, but the elevation of our people."

"I learned that the greatest victories are often won not in battle, but in the hearts of people."

"El que abandona su principios por conveniencia no merece respeto."

"La verdadera riqueza es tener suficiente para las necesidades."

"Un corazón puro vale más que un intelecto brillante."

"La conciencia es el mejor consejero del hombre."

"Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them."

"Eloquence is the image of knowledge, not the knowledge itself."

"Prudence is the virtue that comes from experience."

"The greatest pleasure arises from the contemplation of truth."

"The measure of a man's wisdom is his understanding of his own ignorance."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience, not of years."

"He who has a true knowledge of himself knows that nothing belongs to him but ignorance."

"The more we endeavour to live according to the dictate of reason, the more we endeavour to rely on ourselves alone."

"Self-satisfied persons are easily deceived; true wisdom is to know oneself."

"To live according to reason and to understand things by reason are one and the same thing."

"Wisdom comes from understanding the mistakes of the past."

"Wisdom teaches us to learn from others' suffering."

"Wisdom requires understanding the needs of others."

"True wisdom knows the limits of knowledge."

"Wisdom is knowing what battles to fight."

"Magnanimity is the great ornament of virtue."

"A man of real wisdom can never be willing to subscribe to systems which appear to him inconsistent and contradictory."

"The perfection of human nature is the chief object of all the moral virtues."

"The regard which the wise man is inclined to pay to the opinions of the foolish is often the source of great wisdom."

"The sentiment of duty operates most powerfully when we least expect it."

"The judgment of the multitude is often false, but it is never long false."

"The contemplation of our own unworthiness is often the beginning of wisdom."

"Custom is the great guide of human life."

"Men are much more governed by what they feel than by what they think."