Wisdom Quotes

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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.

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.