In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
Alexander Pope quote on Wisdom
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Paul Ricoeur | Wisdom
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
Bhagavad Gita – Wisdom
Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita – Action, Wisdom
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Wisdom
A wise man loses nothing, if he but saves himself.
Michel de Montaigne – Wisdom, Loss
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
Michel de Montaigne – Wisdom, Cheerfulness
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de Montaigne – Wisdom
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Liberty, Wisdom – Edmund Burke
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
George Eliot – Truth, Wisdom
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
Anthony Robbins – Vision, Conventional Wisdom
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
La Rochefoucauld – Wisdom, Criticism
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Goethe – Wisdom, freedom
Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.
Cicero – Philosophy, Wisdom
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life-knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.
