Wisdom Quotes

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

"Purity of heart is to will one thing."

"The conclusions of passion are the only convincing conclusions."

"Resignation is the currency of wisdom."

"It is quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other clause, that it must be lived forwards."

"Understanding is a sort of mental seeing."

"Do not seek to bring persons to your ideas, but bring ideas to the person as they are."

"The greatest wealth is wisdom, the greatest poverty is foolishness."

"The unexamined life is a life half-lived."

"What we think, we become; what we feel, we create."

"Wisdom comes from mistakes more than from successes."

"Every person carries a world within themselves."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everyone sees."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"The greatest wealth is contentment of mind."

"Knowledge by suffering entereth, and life is perfected by trial."

"All women are not the same, just as all men are not. Remember that."

"Knowledge of our duty is the foundation of all."

"Souls who have suffered understand the weight of silence."

"Understanding requires an open heart, not a closed mind."

"Zealots often mistake passion for truth."

"Loss teaches what gain cannot."

"All that is required to become truly great is to be truly human."

"Wisdom whispers where folly shouts."

"The mystery of life is the greatest teacher of all."

"Silence holds more truth than a thousand words."

"The search for meaning never truly ends."

"Understanding others requires understanding ourselves first."

"Meaning is not found, but created through living."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore."