Wisdom Quotes

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

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.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.