Wisdom Quotes

No time like the present

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.