Wisdom Quotes

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

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

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

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

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

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.