Wisdom Quotes

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?

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

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.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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

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

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

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

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.