Top 100 True Wisdom Quotes
#1. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#2. To believe in what you don't know is as true as to believe in what you do know as long as life is an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
#3. The vision is for the right time, although it takes time, wait for it , it will come true.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
James Gray
#5. The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.
Debasish Mridha
#6. When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.
Debasish Mridha
#7. The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates
#8. Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Mary Astell
#9. The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
Roone Arledge
#10. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#11. Every true novelist listens for that suprapersonal wisdom, which explains why great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. Novelists who are more intelligent than their books should go into another line of work.
Milan Kundera
#12. The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
Michel De Montaigne
#13. Thus it is said:
The path into light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak ...
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.
Lao-Tzu
#14. True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.
Elizabeth George
#16. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm
Munia Khan
#17. There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.
Mark Van Doren
#18. Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.
Thabiti M. Anyabwile
#19. To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.
Debasish Mridha
#20. The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.
Bill Hamon
#21. The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.
John Calvin
#22. Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success.
Debasish Mridha
#23. True life begins with a dream to dazzle, a purpose to live for, and a plan to realize it.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
John Calvin
#25. Although European thinkers see the Greeks as their intellectual forebears, the Greeks themselves looked toward the East for the sources of true wisdom-to Egypt, Persia, and, during the early centuries of the common era, India.
Gananath Obeyesekere
#26. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.
C. JoyBell C.
#27. True wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.
David Halberstam
#28. He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#30. To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
Confucius
#31. Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
Walter Savage Landor
#32. True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
Confucius
#33. Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom.
E.W. Kenyon
#34. Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don't make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare.
Donald Goines
#35. It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#36. No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#37. Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.
Simon Boylan
#38. All true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of men, in the great solitudes; and it can only be obtained through suffering. Suffering and privation are the only things that can open the mind of man to that which is hidden from his fellows.' That
Doug Scott
#39. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#40. And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.
Steven J. Carroll
#42. Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.
Bill Willingham
#43. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#45. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
Ayn Rand
#46. When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.
Larry Ellison
#47. To act - that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.
Fernando Pessoa
#48. Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
Adoniram Judson
#51. A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal interest.
Khem Veasna
#52. Write what you believe to be true; don't worry about who agrees or disagrees with you.
Debasish Mridha
#53. The true way for one to understand their life's purpose is for one to truely understand themselves.
Shawn Mitchell
#54. All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Ming-Dao Deng
#55. Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.
Suzanne Palmieri
#56. What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
John Milton
#57. Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.
Herbert Simon
#58. Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
#59. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#60. The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
Plutarch
#61. True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.
Aristotle.
#62. Your never over the hill to find true love because sometimes, that's where it is
Benny Bellamacina
#63. Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides
#64. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.
Richie Norton
#65. The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you ...
Frederick William Robertson
#66. you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true
Avis J. Williams
#67. True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#68. It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#69. Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
Frederick Buechner
#70. The wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor? ... You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.
Harry Blamires
#71. In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#72. 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
#73. With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
William Shakespeare
#74. In fact, "father" and "mother" are two aspects of the same reality. Father is more expressive side of wisdom or understanding, and mother the side of love or compassion...Without understanding there cannot be true love, and without love there cannot be understanding,
Thich Nhat Hanh
#75. True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
Kiana Tom
#76. He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
Tad Williams
#77. Do what you love; love what you do. You will be happy; your dreams will come true.
Debasish Mridha
#78. When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.
Michael Beckwith
#79. A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#80. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#81. True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do
Paulo Coelho
#82. The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
Adyashanti
#83. True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
Rabia Basri
#84. Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
Dan Gilroy
#85. Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
#90. Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great ingredient to thinking negative and staying in mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#91. I am not pretty, I am not ugly,
I am not true, I am not false,
I am just me,
a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom.
Richard S. Hartmetz
#93. It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.
Richard Whately
#94. Death's wisdom is finding, at the end, that you think only of those you loved, and why you didn't love them more. Love is the only true force that endures.
Joey W. Hill
#95. Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen.
Terry A. O'Neal
#96. True wisdom would be the ability to live without this scenery, to be the same person even at the bottom of a well. But that, it has to be said, is not so easy.
Francois Lelord
#97. Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#98. The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.
Frederick Lenz
#99. A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
Mark Kurlansky
#100. It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching
John Ruskin
