Wisdom Quotes

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.