Wisdom Quotes

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.