Wisdom Quotes

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

There's no straight line to progress.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.

There are always more choices than you think.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Let go of the need to control. Trust in the wisdom of a divine plan.

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other.