True Wisdom Quotes
55 quotes by 48 authors
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Guru Arjun tells us that the truth we seek is within ourselves, and I agree. The answers to many of our greatest desires, needs, and…
— Dharma Singh Khalsa
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Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
— John Calvin
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... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
— Michel de Montaigne
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It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of…
— Richard Whately
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True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it,…
— John Tillotson
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The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.
— Matt Chandler
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Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay…
— Henry David Thoreau
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True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
— Frederick Lenz
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Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of…
— Charles Henry Mackintosh
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Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant…
— Vera Nazarian
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
— Euripides
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True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
— Kiana Tom
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
— Oprah Winfrey
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True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Who Wrote These True Wisdom Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 55 True Wisdom Quotes, led by these top contributors: