Quotes about Wisdom
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly.
— Epicurus
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
— Oscar Wilde
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
— Joel Osteen
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
— Lao Tzu
Experience is a teacher, a brutal teacher. But you learn, my God, do you learn.
— CS Lewis
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.
— Brian Tracy
Before you act; Listen, before you react; Think, before you spend; Earn, before you criticize; Wait, before you pray; Forgive, before you quit; Try.
— Ernest Hemingway
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
— Forrest Gump
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
— Thomas Henry Huxley