Wisdom Quotes

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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.