Quotes on Wisdom

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.