Top 100 Seek Wisdom Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Seek Wisdom

#1. We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.

Charles De Lint

#2. I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.

Confucius

#3. Be determined to seek wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Great minds seek wisdom.
Average minds seek entertainment.
Small minds seek trouble.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses.

Helen Keller

#7. Seek wisdom, and success will find you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

Anonymous

#9. Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

Scott Cunningham

#10. Every suffering is a buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to buddhahood. You can't say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain.

Bodhidharma

#11. Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Adyashanti

#12. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

Helen Keller

#13. I will seek wisdom. I will choose my friends with care.

Andy Andrews

#14. Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Epicurus

#15. Be loving and kind but be bold.
Seek wisdom but not the gold.

Debasish Mridha

#16. They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Idries Shah

#17. We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Robert Hall

#18. I seek wisdom to justify my ignorance

Neal Parks

#19. Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

Eliza R. Snow

#20. No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

Dean Koontz

#21. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

Hakim Ibn Hizam

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

Peter Deunov

#23. If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Edward Abbey

#24. To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,
to seek folly is to seek evil,
to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,
and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth

Natalya

#26. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.

Ralph Alfred Habas

#27. Be confident. Don't seek permission to be yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#28. What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

Lloyd Alexander

#29. You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

Dejan Stojanovic

#30. It is knowledge that binds us; shared wisdom from ages past and new wisdom that we should all seek to embrace. Wisdom is our legacy; our refuge from the world of the ignorant and foolish. We chose this path that we might walk open-eyed into the future... undaunted by fear and lies.

Ted Naifeh

#31. We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#32. It's not wise to seek the revenge and forget to love.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Men shouldn't fear or hate what they do not know but study it and share it instead. It is both an act of selfishness and cruelty to seek for the destruction of wisdom and the wise, but also to keep silent when witnessing it happening.

Daniel Marques

#34. You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.

Abu'l-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi

#35. We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions.

Raphael Zernoff

#36. What we desire, what we work for, or what we seek after, are those things that merely lead us along the paths of our lives.

Wu Wei

#37. Listen to your inner voice... for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you... Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you.

Caroline Joy Adams

#38. Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt the good they offer. Wisdom, wherever he finds it, it's a believer's goal, because he is more worthy of it than anyone else.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#39. If I could wish one thing for my children, it would be wisdom. If they have wisdom, then they'll know how to seek and find everything else in life that matters.

Donna Gentry Morton

#40. Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Pythagoras

#41. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

#42. The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#43. What you seek you shall find unless you stop searching for it.

Raphael Zernoff

#44. Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance; discover the fires and infernos of hell that have sprung inside of you.

Forrest Curran

#45. Tis said that wisdom comes to those who seek it.
-Christopher

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#46. Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.

Vironika Tugaleva

#47. God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

William Cowper

#48. Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

Thomas Aquinas

#49. Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#50. I think I unknowingly seek people who are better than me in the sense of strength and wisdom. It's like I've got to know and trust that you have the answers and that you can carry me if needed.

Aeriel Miranda

#51. What you have to get is a ocean of love within your heart and to seek that in others also.

Nirmala Srivastava

#52. best investment you can make is in yourself. Continue to educate yourself and seek out wisdom, adding new skills and experiences that will make you more valuable.

Charles Conrad

#53. Love costs us much,
but we still need it.
Wisdom costs us much,
but we still seek it.
Faith costs us much,
but we still practice it.
Life costs us much,
but we still desire it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#54. You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. - Victor Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley

#55. A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Jim George

#56. Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Heraclitus

#57. I was inflamed to love, and seek, and obtain, and hold, and embrace, not some sect, but wisdom itself-whatever it was.

Augustine Of Hippo

#58. Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#59. Seek happiness now within you. Don't look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.

Sal Martinez

#60. The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling
even compelling
us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices!

Margaret Starbird

#61. To be yourself, don't seek permission, create yourself endlessly.

Debasish Mridha

#62. In our culture it is seen as a sign of weakness to actually seek help from someone else. And yet, as Christians, God designed us to need each other - He designed us to lean upon the body of Christ for support, prayer, wisdom, and even practical help.

Leslie Ludy

#63. Life expands when you dare and share. Life shrinks when you seek consistency and fear.

Debasish Mridha

#64. The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.

Nirmala Srivastava

#65. Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

Thomas Aquinas

#66. After all is said and done, it is the commitment of love that transcends time and space. So often, we seek answers in places where there is little light. It is when we choose to go within that we find all that we need.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#67. In the middle of this journey, we lose a bit of ourselves. We do not know where we are or where we're headed. We look for directions, seek for guidance, and if we're lucky, we find it without too much time lost. And if we're truly lucky, we gain our whole selves back, with an ounce of wisdom on top.

Joanne Crisner

#68. It is only those who do not know who wander the paths. A blind eye and a stout heart create a true wanderer. Those who seek the paths do so in vain; only those who can see deep might hope to wander.

Mary-Jean Harris

#69. The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you
desire.

Brian Tracy

#70. All answers that you seek can only be found within.

Abhijit Naskar

#71. Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Rumi

#72. By electing a covenant people, God demonstrated to humankind that striving for him is not a vain thing. He rewards those individuals who seek him according to his divine attributes, the highest wisdom, and the ultimate standard of fairness.

James Mikolajczyk

#73. If you do not seek the truth by yourself, you will be misled.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

Abdul-Qadir Gilani

#75. Some souls seek to walk in awareness. Souls who walk in awareness choose a different path. They seek to experience all the peace and joy, limitlessness and freedom, wisdom and love that Oneness brings.

Neale Donald Walsch

#76. Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Solon

#77. Accept yourself, seek the divinity within you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#78. Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#79. One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear
and we just don't want to hear it.

Andy Stanley

#80. I
started
creating;
Myself
From
The
Inside
Out
&
My
God
I
Wish
I
Had
Done
It
Sooner.

Nikki Rowe

#81. Seek self before you venture to conquer the world. Most of what you are looking for is rooted inside you.

Eric Onyango Otieno

#82. People who seek the truth never stop looking for it

Phil Mitchell

#83. Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#84. Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

Carlos Castaneda

#85. It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.

Ian Gregoire

#86. Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Andrew Lang

#87. Don't seek permission from others, be yourself, live your life.

Debasish Mridha

#88. If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.

Ibn Ata Allah

#89. Do not seek water, get thirst.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#90. What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

Tony Campolo

#91. Seek the joy and beauty of life to find the opportunity in life.

Debasish Mridha

#92. Be the help you seek from others.

Abhijit Naskar

#93. People look for peaceful solutions for the world troubled by conflict. A peaceful solution can only come from a peaceful heart. Be the peaceful solution you seek.

Raphael Zernoff

#94. Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#95. Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.

Megan Webster