369 Wisdom Quotes (Page-9) – 241-270
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“Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.”
― Miguel de Cervantes
242.
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu
243.
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
― Thomas J. Watson
244.
“If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.”
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
245.
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
― Juvenal
246.
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
― Charles Spurgeon
247.
“We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.”
― A. D. Gordon
248.
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
― Publilius Syrus
249.
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
― Chief Joseph
250.
“The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.”
― Xavier Rudd
251.
“The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.”
― Baltasar Gracian
252.
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
253.
“Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.”
― Richard Cecil
254.
“Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.”
― Sidney Hook
255.
“Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.”
― William Blake
256.
“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
― Joseph Campbell
257.
“Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.”
― Paul Ricoeur
258.
“Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.”
― Solon
259.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
260.
“In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!”
― Homer
261.
“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
262.
“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”
― Honore de Balzac
263.
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
― Mother Teresa
264.
“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”
― Josh Billings
265.
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wise Words by Khalil Gibran
266.
“Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.”
― Khalil Gibran
267.
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Khalil Gibran
268.
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
― Khalil Gibran
269.
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
― Khalil Gibran
270.
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
― Khalil Gibran