Top 100 True Wisdom Quotes
#1. The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
Socrates
#2. 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
#3. The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.
Michel De Montaigne
#4. True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.
Elizabeth George
#5. The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.
John Calvin
#6. Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
John Calvin
#7. 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
#8. True wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.
David Halberstam
#9. 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
#10. True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
Confucius
#11. 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
#12. Acquiring true wisdom is always a greater burden than transient pain.
Bill Willingham
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides
#17. 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
#18. True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
Kiana Tom
#19. True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do
Paulo Coelho
#20. Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
#21. Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom.
Richard S. Hartmetz
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching
John Ruskin
#25. True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
Josh Billings
#28. True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
Frederick Lenz
#29. For no wisdom is true wisdom if it does not direct all its prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice towards that final state where God shall be all in all in an assured eternity and perfect peace.
Augustine Of Hippo
#30. True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#31. If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.
Matt Chandler
#32. True wisdom dwells in the ability to remain constantly aware of that in which we have no practical knowledge of
Carl Henegan
#33. Often, we will stay in a miserable status quo until the misery finally exceeds the resistance to change. True wisdom is seeing the future: what will happen if change does not happen?
David W. Earle
#34. True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#35. The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.
Frederick Lenz
#36. It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.
William Dean Howells
#37. True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.
Whittaker Chambers
#38. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
Thom S. Rainer
#39. True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
#40. 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
#41. True wisdom can never find fault or a person at fault.
Debasish Mridha
#42. True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.
Johnathan Jena
#43. I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of true wisdom in the tradition of my father and grandfather and great-grandfather before me.
Terry Pratchett
#44. In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.
Masao Abe
#45. Be good to those who are good,
and just to those who are not;
this is true wisdom.
Do good unto others,
not expecting them to do good unto you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.
Lao-Tzu
#47. Where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#49. True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.
Dagobert D. Runes
#50. A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
Oliver Goldsmith
#51. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
#52. Our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse ... To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom
Radhanath Swami
#53. Solving large, difficult problems may earn you a reputation for skillful negotiation, but Sun Tzu asserts that this supposed achievement is actually a form of failure, and having true wisdom means preventing difficult problems from arising in the first place. Ironically,
Sun Tzu
#54. True wisdom is found in trusting God when you can't figure things out.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#55. In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
David Hume
#56. Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.
Radhe Maa
#57. Set a challenge for yourself and challenge yourself to set a challenge for others to challenge themselves. True strength, true wisdom, true tenacity and true courage is best seen when it is in motion! Take action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Socrates
#59. True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#60. But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this house come as the desperate cry of one human being to another, saying, Know me, live with me in the world of my mind.
Orson Scott Card
#62. True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
John Tillotson
#63. The only true wisdom is in knowing that with love you can win the world.
Debasish Mridha
#64. True wisdom is the skill and practice of death.
C.S. Lewis
#65. Do not seek wealth or splendor, but seek true wisdom, freedom, and joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
Jonathan Edwards
#67. When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.
Michael Eisen
#68. True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure - not from success.
Debasish Mridha
#69. True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
John Calvin
#71. Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu
#73. But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
Plato
#74. True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
Seneca The Younger
#75. In Systems Thinking, the true wisdom often comes from a willingness to let go of past learning.
Pearl Zhu
#76. The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.
Shunryu Suzuki
#79. Self awareness is only powerful when knowledge is understood and applied, only then can it manifest into true wisdom!
Martin R. Lemieux
#80. Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.
Paulo Coelho
#81. God's wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we can spend a lot of time and energy getting lost, or worse, asking for directions from people who only pretend to know the way.
Margaret Feinberg
#82. True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#84. I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.
C. G. Jung
#85. True wisdom is gentle and relevant. It comes to us when we are ready to hear it through a conduit we perceive as safe and loving.
Danielle Boonstra
#86. We can only achieve true wisdom when our soul is liberated from our bodies by death.
Arianna Huffington
#88. True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#89. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
#90. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
#91. The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#92. True wisdom, which is not certain of anything in this world of contradictions, would have prevented him from attaining his present position. It would have alarmed his superiors, and done away with his chances of promotion.
Joseph Conrad
#93. It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
Bertrand Russell
#94. When someone studies well, has a successful career, or deals with difficulties well, people think he is a wise man. However, such successes do not mean that one is wise. True wisdom is to know with the consciousness of God.
Woo Myung
#95. True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#96. True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
Gore Vidal
#97. To know oneself and one's end or goal in life is true wisdom - knowledge of the heart more than the head.
James Kubicki
#98. 10 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true wisdom. All who obey his commandments will grow in wisdom. Praise him forever!
Anonymous
#99. The source and essence of all creation can be found everywhere. It resides equally in you, in me, and in all things. True wisdom is the fullest understanding of this essence--an understanding that can happen only when there is no separation between the knower and the known.
Victor Shamas
#100. You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
Vernon Howard
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