Quotes on “wisdom”

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

The sun always shines above the clouds.