Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.