Wisdom Quotes

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

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.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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.