Wisdom Quotes

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.

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.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.