Wisdom Quotes

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

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.