Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

352 Quotes

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Jimi Hendrix

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Jodi Picoult

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Joe Abercrombie

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

John Milton

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

John Paul II

A man without words is a man without thought.

John Steinbeck

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Joseph Brodsky

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Joss Whedon

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Joyce Carol Oates

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