Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.