Wisdom Quotes

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

Simone Weil

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Viktor E. Frankl

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

Albert Einstein

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Bertrand Russell

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard Feynman

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Isaac Asimov

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Marie Curie

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

Kahlil Gibran

"If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"As many faiths, so many paths."

Sri Ramakrishna

"Learning gives creativity, creativity leads to thinking, thinking provides knowledge, knowledge makes you great."

"Wisdom restrains the mind from wandering where it wills, turns it away from evil, and guides it toward the good."

Thiruvalluvar

"The friendship of the wise is steady; it does not bloom and close like the lotus."

Thiruvalluvar

"Not to fear what ought to be feared is folly; to fear what ought to be feared is the way of the wise."

Thiruvalluvar

"Slowly, slowly, O mind, all things happen in their own time; the gardener may pour a hundred pots of water, but fruit comes only in its season."

Kabir

"Speak such words that let go of your ego; they will soothe others and bring coolness to yourself."

Kabir

"Do not snap the thread of love in haste; once broken it does not join again, and if it does, a knot remains."

Rahim

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

Thomas Henry Huxley