Wisdom Quotes

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

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.