Wisdom Quotes

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.