Wisdom Quotes

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows follow behind you."

- Maori Proverb

"Everyone knows at least one ‘know-it-all’. If you want to invest well, don’t be a know-it-all."

- Warren Buffett

"Rule no. 1: Never lose money. Rule no. 2: Never forget rule no. 1."

- Warren Buffett

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge."

- James Hillman

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love."

- Barbara Jordan

"A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who."

- Jay-Z

"The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth because the Moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as wisdom. When they speak, the voice of power speaks."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is the one who knows himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Wisdom is a weapon to ward off destruction; It is an inner fortress which enemies cannot destroy."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

- Lao Tzu

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom."

- J. R. R. Tolkien

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."

- Umberto Eco

"Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows."

- Al Unser

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

- Charles Wadsworth

"Saturdays are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."

- John Shirley

"Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

- Sydney J. Harris

"If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom."

- Adam Grant

"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

- William C. Bryant

"The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism"

- William Osler

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Observation, Reason, Human Understanding, Courage; these make the physician."

- Martin H. Fischer

"Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient."

- Sigmund Freud

"There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues."

- William Osler