Quotes about Wisdom

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.