Wisdom Quotes

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

Don't believe everything you think.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

It's the impeded stream that sings

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

In this complex world, we all need God's Divine wisdom and guidance more than we ever have before.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Scars are wisdom in disguise.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

Sunny days give us happiness; stormy days give us wisdom.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.

Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.