Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom begins at the end.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.