Wisdom Quotations

It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential. Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Wharton:
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.--Anonymous
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.--Anonymous
We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.—Anonymous
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. –Samuel Butler
All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre. --George MacDonald
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
“Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.”
Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn