Wisdom Quotes

"The greatest minds are those that can hold contradictions and still function."

"The greatest wisdom is self-knowledge"

"Wisdom grows with age and reflection"

"To understand another is to hold the key to understanding ourselves."

"Wisdom arrives not as a thunderbolt but as the quiet accumulation of small truths."

"The heart's logic transcends the mind's calculations."

"Wisdom whispers where foolishness shouts."

"The poor teach the rich what money cannot buy."

"The heart understands what the mind cannot articulate."

"Wisdom whispers while foolishness shouts."

"A woman who knows herself cannot be conquered."

"Wisdom whispers; foolishness shouts."

"Wisdom knows when to speak and when to hold silence."

"I have been temperate in the pursuit of truth."

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words 'And this, too, shall pass away.'"

"The true rule, in determining to embrace or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil than of good."

"Without assumption of facts not appearing on the record, I can say nothing concerning the subject."

"I think one thing that's important is that we stop trying to be perfect."

"You can't think your way out of problems. You have to feel your way through them."

"Pain is information. Listen to it."

"To know yourself, you must first lose yourself."

"Writing is therapy without the therapist."

"To understand yourself, read your own history backward."

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"Forgiveness does not mean forgetting, nor does it mean condoning what has been done."

"Let your conscience be your guide."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is freedom."