Wisdom Quotes

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.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.