Wisdom Quotes

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Kindness is wisdom.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.