“true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.” — David Halberstam 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 is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble. — Shri Radhe Maa Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is true strength. Understanding is true might. Wisdom is true power.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is true strength, understanding is true might, and wisdom is true power.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Cultivating pure love and true wisdom greatly enlivens the heart and brain, physically as well as spiritually. And the harmonization of love… — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image
When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point… — Michael Eisen Copy Share Image
The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“God’s wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
“True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked.… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that… — Tao Te Ching Copy Share Image
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth… — Akhenaton 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
“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
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember.” — Ian Bates Copy Share Image
“The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets… — Abraham Copy Share Image
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
True wisdom and intelligence move us closer to God and not away from Him. He is our Creator. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“To understand that true wisdom is not about being right, it’s about the unintended consequences of our decisions.” — Michael C. Grumley Copy Share Image
Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true. — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“True wisdom is like an ocean; the deeper you go the greater the treasures you'll find.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
