Wisdom Quotes

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

- Maya Angelou

"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."

- Mary Catherine Bateson

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."

- William Saroyan

"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path."

- Psalm 119:105

"Be wise like serpents and harmless like doves."

- Matthew 10:16

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."

- Marcel Pagnol

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."

- Susan B. Anthony

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

- Helen Keller

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Poor eyes limit your sight; poor vision limits your deeds."

- Franklin Field

"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness."

- Mother Teresa

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

- William Shakespeare

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."

- Francis Bacon

"Grandparents should play the same role in the family as an elder statesman can in the government of a country. They have the experience and knowledge that comes from surviving a great many years of life’s battles and the wisdom, hopefully, to recognize how their grandchildren can benefit from this."

- Geoff Dench

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."

- Confucius

"The cautious seldom err."

- Confucius

"Parents know a lot, but grandparents know everything."

"Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo."

"El tiempo da buen consejo"

"Nadie da palos de balde."

"Consejo no pedido, consejo mal oído."

"Gobernar es prever."

"No dejes camino viejo por sendero nuevo."

"La lengua no tiene hueso, pero corta lo más grueso."

"La paciencia es el compañero de la sabiduría."

"Más Vale Prevenir Que Curar"

"El hábito no hace al monje."

"A los tontos no les dura el dinero."

"No vendas la piel del oso antes de cazarlo."