Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Wisdom

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel … You are called in to help the unhappy.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Turkish Proverb

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange – my youth.
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American Poet

As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.
Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer

Perfect wisdom hath four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator

Wisdom is divided into two parts: (a) having a great deal to say, and (b) not saying it.
Anonymous

If wisdom were conferred with this proviso, that I must keep it to myself and not communicate it to others, I would have none of it.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

He is great who can do what he wishes; he is wise who wishes to do what he can.
August Wilhelm Iffland (1759–1814) German Actor, Playwright

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author

The desire to know is natural to good men.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Polymath, Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Architect

The extreme limit of wisdom—that’s what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill (1806–73) English Philosopher, Economist

There’s no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.
Carlos Castaneda (1925–98) Peruvian-born American Anthropologist, Author

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates (469BCE–399BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher

Wisdom is the power that enables us to use knowledge for the benefit of ourselves and others.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874–1956) American Business Executive

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

When one has lost a friend one’s eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Irish Proverb

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless.
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–81) American Editor, Novelist

You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
Neale Donald Walsch (b.1943) American Spiritual Writer

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddhist Teaching

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