Wisdom Quotes

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.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.