Wisdom Quotes

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.

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.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.