Wisdom Quotes

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."

"The lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

"A laugh is a terrible weapon of understanding."

"A question unanswered is sometimes wiser than a question answered."

"There is a madness to all striving that wisdom must recognize."

"The heart knows before the mind understands."

"The test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two opposing truths."

"We sometimes conceive an admiration for a man assembling in his single person a diversity of qualities."

"Self-knowledge is the first step toward self-improvement."

"A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe."

"The heart has its secrets, and the mind cannot always penetrate them."

"Credulity is a dangerous master of the human spirit."

"The better part of valor is discretion."

"The tendency to magnify trifles is the common failing of feeble minds."

"The path of true wisdom is narrow and difficult to walk."

"The masses are incapable of truth; they prefer comfortable lies."

"Wisdom often masquerades as ignorance."

"Wisdom is not found in books alone."

"Every person has greatness within."

"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."

"The mind is like a river. It is too much a slave to its channels."

"Our passions are the true judges of our intentions."

"To banish imperfection is not to create perfection."

"A book is a mirror: if an ass looks into it you cannot expect an apostle to look out."

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom."

"Every good thing has a shadow side; every shadow has a good side."

"The test of the first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."