Wisdom Quotes

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.