Wisdom Quotes

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.