Wisdom Quotes

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.