Wisdom Quotes

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

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.

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.

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.