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.

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.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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

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.

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.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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.