
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.Charles Dickens

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.Alfred Tennyson

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Socrates

Turn your wounds into wisdom.Oprah Winfrey

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.Bob Marley

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.Kahlil Gibran

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.Lin Yutang

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.Aristotle
Wisdom begins in wonder.Socrates
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.Baltasar Gracian
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Sophocles
A short saying often contains much wisdom.Sophocles
Silence is a fence around wisdom.German proverb
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.Napoleon Bonaparte
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.Sophocles
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.Francis Bacon
Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself.Oprah Winfrey
Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.Martin Fischer
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.William Saroyan
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.Vernon Cooper
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.Doug Larson
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.David Jordan
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.Samuel Johnson
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.Confucius
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.Keshavan Nair
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.Edward Young
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.Sophocles
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.Pierre Abelard
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.Theodore Rubin
Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.Stephen Sigmund
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.Gautama Buddha
To give ones self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.Confucius
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.Rachel Carson
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.William Menninger
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.Ella Wilcox
India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between the wisdom of its rural people and the skill of its professionals.Verghese Kurien

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.Rabindranath Tagore