Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 5

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The highest form of wisdom is kindness

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

We must become the change we want to see.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it

A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn''t make sense.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ''Where have I gone wrong?'' Then a voice says to me, ''This is going to take more than one night.''

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren''t we like that wise old bird?

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don''t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.