Wisdom Quotes

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.

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.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.