Quotes on Wisdom

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.