Wisdom Quotes

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.