Wisdom Quotes

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.