Wisdom Quotes

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.