Wisdom Quotes

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.