Wisdom Quotes

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

Honesty is the best policy.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

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.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

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.