Wisdom Quotes

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

Honesty is the best policy.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

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.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.