Wisdom Quotes

Look before you leap.

From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

Anger manages everything badly.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

We often despise what is most useful to us.

A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

The death of the self lies in the life of the heart

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...