Wisdom Quotes

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

Honesty is the best policy.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.