Wisdom Quotes

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.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.