Quotes about Wisdom
The truth is more important than the facts.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
— Pema Chodron
Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.
— Hannah Hurnard
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
— William Osler
Custom without truth is error grown old.
— Tertullian
The higher the truth, the simpler it is.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.
— Ronald Reagan
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
— Samuel Johnson
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
— William Hazlitt
Sometimes the truth is stupid.
— Roger Williams
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
— Francis de Sales
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
— Heinrich Heine