Wisdom Quotes

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.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

No man was ever wise by chance.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

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.