“True wisdom lies in the pure roots of untouchedly souls.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True wisdom is gentle and relevant. It comes to us when we are ready to hear it through a conduit we perceive… — Danielle Boonstra Copy Share Image
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
“True wisdom dwells in the ability to remain constantly aware of that in which we have no practical knowledge of” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember.” — Ian M Bates Copy Share Image
True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“To act – that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of… — terry pratchett Copy Share Image
“Often, we will stay in a miserable status quo until the misery finally exceeds the resistance to change. True wisdom is seeing… — David W. Earle LPC Copy Share Image
“True wisdom, which is not certain of anything in this world of contradictions, would have prevented him from attaining his present position.… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You can age for a thousand years, and still, no wisdom will ever manifest, because for true wisdom to manifest, the mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Wisdom was a thing that the Greeks admired; but Christ is the true light of the world, it is through him alone… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Guru Arjun tells us that the truth we seek is within ourselves, and I agree. The answers to many of our greatest… — Dharma Singh Khalsa Copy Share Image
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than… — Plato Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Better guide the young than reclaim them when old For the voice of true wisdom is calling "To rescue the fallen is… — Joseph Malins Copy Share Image
“There maybe in philosophy, just as well as in anything else, a bigotted attachment to certain doctrines and systems, which renders men… — August Neander Copy Share Image
“The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.” — David Halberstam Copy Share Image