Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

In the space age the most important space is between the ears.

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

Re-energize your soul... Walk with Mother nature.

What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?

Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not help. Wisdom is more important than saving some cultural symbol.

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

To achieve, you need thought

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

I have a deep appreciation for the wisdom of this guy , George Washington.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.