Quotes about Wisdom
Every experience is a valuable teacher.
— Oprah Winfrey
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight" (Proverbs 3:5-6).
— OS Hillman
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
— Oscar Wilde
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
— Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
— Oscar Wilde
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
— Oscar Wilde
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
— Oscar Wilde
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
— Oscar Wilde
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
— Oscar Wilde
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
— Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
— Oscar Wilde
A burnt child loves the fire.
— Oscar Wilde