Wisdom Quotes

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.