Wisdom Quotes

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

There are no working hours for leaders.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length.

We are apart and alone, as we must, but at least we are alone together.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

A lot of people have knowledge, but they don't have the wisdom of when to apply that knowledge.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

Conscience is wiser than science.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.