Wisdom Quotes

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

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.

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.

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.