Wisdom Quotes

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

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

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.