Wisdom Quotes

"Suffering brings understanding to the human heart."

"Moderation in all things is the mark of wisdom."

"The heart knows truths the mind cannot reason."

"What brings temporary pleasure often brings lasting pain."

"The wise person learns from both success and failure."

"The pursuit of perfection often prevents the good."

"The mind that never doubts has stopped growing."

"We live in a time of unparalleled prosperity and unparalleled despair."

"Wisdom comes from acknowledging what you don't know."

"If you wish to improve, be content to appear foolish and stupid regarding externals."

"Moderation increases enjoyment and makes pleasure lasting."

"Seek wisdom, not wealth and fame."

"The wise man is not he who merely knows many things, but he who understands them."

"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Reason must guide all our actions, not passion."

"The wise person adapts to the times while holding fast to principles."

"You can't control everything, but you can control how you react."

"Wisdom comes from experience, even the painful kind."

"Wisdom comes from making mistakes so publicly that everyone learns from them too."

"The ability to laugh at ourselves is the beginning of enlightenment."

"That which can be thought and that which can be are the same."

"Motion and change are illusions born of incomplete understanding."

"The greatest wisdom lies in recognizing what truly is and what merely seems."

"Only the immobile and unchanging deserves to be called real."

"Those who think deeply will recognize that diversity is but an illusion."

"The wise accept the paradox that reality cannot change."

"Seek ye not the ever-shifting appearances but the eternal substance."

"To truly know is to transcend the illusions of becoming and perishing."

"The greatest error is to suppose that what is not might somehow be."

"The inquirer must choose between the way of being and the way of seeming."