Wisdom Quotes

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

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 faith rather than reason.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

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.