Wisdom Quote by Walpola Rahula

“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.”

— John Calvin

“The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

— Huangbo Xiyun

“A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you have only…

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The least of Nature's works, one who might move The wise man…

— William Wordsworth

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

— Marcus Aurelius

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is so rare…

— Emil Cioran

“A wise man is the one who is able to see the foolishness in his thought.”

— Kwesi Ackah

“If it is characteristic of the wise man to do nothing useless, no one will surpass me in wisdom: I do not even lower…

— Emil M. Cioran

“There are men who call land theirs, yet have never set eyes on that land and have never trodden it. There are men who…

— Leo Tolstoy

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man…

— Isaac Watts