Wisdom Quotes

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

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

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

Honesty is the best policy.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.