"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -Socrates
"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
-Tom Wilson
"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."
-Peter Marshall
"A bone to the dog is not charity.
Charity is the bone shared with the dog,
when you are just as hungry as the dog."
-Jack London
"If you haven't got any charity in your heart,
you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
-Bob Hope
“Calvin: Do you believe in a supreme evil being
dedicated to the temptation,
corruption, and destruction of man?
Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help”
-Calvin and Hobbes
"It is not the great temptations that ruin us;
it is the little ones."
-John W. DeForest
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate
between good and evil."
-Cicero
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one,
no less wise, to balance it."
-George Santayana
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification."
-Martin Fischer
"It's so simple to be wise.
Just think of something stupid to say
and say the opposite."
-Sam Levenson
"Whatever is at the center of our life
will be the source of our security,
guidance, wisdom, and power."
-Stephen Covey
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power,
and teach us, that the less we use our power,
the greater it will be."
-Thomas Jefferson
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom.
Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future."
-Vernon Cooper
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success:
Sincerity, personal integrity, humility,
courtesy, wisdom, charity."
-William Menninger
"Actually, we have no problems,
we have opportunities for which we should give thanks.
-Edgar Cayce
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Wisdom Quotes
Spiritual Wisdom is the study of knowledge that is not factual, but has the value of being wise. Of course, you determine what is wise or not. We hope you find the wisdom in these quotes of value and help you to attain a higher version of yourself.
Spiritual Wisdom Quotes
Free Spiritual Guidance
by Jordan Canon, Spiritual Advisor
An error we refuse to correct has many lives.
It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings
and wisdom to do something about them."
-Edgar Cayce
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
-Buddha
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-Marie Curie
If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.
-Warren Wendel Wiersbe
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
-A. Powell Davies
He who controls others may be powerful,
but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
-Laozi
Wise men speak because they have something to say;
Fools because they have to say something.”
-Plato
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it
-Albert Einstein
“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.”
-John A. Simone
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it,
and virtue is doing it.
-David Starr
A man only becomes wise when he begins to
calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
-Gian Carlo Menotti
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Abraham Lincoln
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same.
Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
-Don Williams
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
-William Shakespeare
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.
-Chinese Proverbs
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
-Bill Cosby
The highest form of wisdom is kindness.
-The Talmud
We must become the change we want to see.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce,
but still only light and flickering. As love grows older,
our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals,
deep-burning and unquenchable.
-Bruce Lee
