Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.