Wisdom Quotes

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.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.