Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes on Wisdom

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
- Laozi
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Isocrates
When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.
- Confucius
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius
When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.
- Confucius
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley