Wisdom Quotes

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Kindness is wisdom.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

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.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

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

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.

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.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.