Wisdom Quotes

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.