Wisdom quotes:
- "A clever man commits no minor blunders. "
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. "
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "A person hears only what they understand. "
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to ..."
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them ..."
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is ..."
By: Joseph Addison - "And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the ..."
By: Aeschylus - "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls ..."
By: Aeschylus - "Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "
By: Aeschylus - "Wisdom comes alone through suffering. "
By: Aeschylus - "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power ..."
By: James Allen - "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to ..."
By: Woody Allen - "More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair ..."
By: Woody Allen - "Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our ..."
By: Greg Anderson - "The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "
By: Aristotle - "Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can ..."
By: Mary Kay Ash - "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society ..."
By: Isaac Asimov - "Patience is the companion of wisdom. "
By: Saint Augustine - "To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his ..."
By: Akhenaton - "Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. "
By: William R. Alger - "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "
By: Francis Bacon - "If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running ..."
By: Francis Bacon - "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "
By: Francis Bacon - "There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man ..."
By: Francis Bacon - "There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation ..."
By: Francis Bacon - "Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been ..."
By: Dave Barry - "I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives ..."
By: John Barrymore - "I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. ..."
By: Maria Bartiromo - "What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our ..."
By: Henry Ward Beecher - "Hollywood... damn well won't hire a writer over 40 unless he made his mark when ..."
By: Dirk Benedict - "Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "
By: Walter Benjamin - "Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and ..."
By: Bo Bennett - "When I ask him these questions and he answers, I haven't got the faintest idea ..."
By: Edgar Bergen - "Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
By: Josh Billings
- "Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. "
By: Josh Billings - "The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can ..."
By: William Blake - "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. "
By: William Blake - "What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom ..."
By: William Blake - "Mother's words of wisdom: "Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!" "
By: Erma Bombeck - "Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a ..."
By: Erma Bombeck - "If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove ..."
By: Omar N. Bradley - "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of ..."
By: Omar N. Bradley - "Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common ..."
By: Bill Bradley - "Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. "
By: Bertolt Brecht - "Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' ..."
By: Robert Bridges - "Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and ..."
By: Beau Bridges - "To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days ..."
By: James Buchanan - "Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and ..."
By: Buddha - "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light ..."
By: Buddha - "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to ..."
By: Buddha - "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little ..."
By: Edmund Burke - "Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. "
By: Robert Burns - "If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "
By: Leo Buscaglia - "As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a ..."
By: Jane Byrne - "Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. "
By: Lord Byron - "Kindness is wisdom. "
By: Philip James Bailey - "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "
By: Stephen Vincent Benet - "Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which ..."
By: Hal Borland - "The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, ..."
By: Hal Borland - "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than ..."
By: Anne Bradstreet - "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "
By: Thomas Carlyle - "In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom ..."
By: Thomas Carlyle - "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the ..."
By: Jimmy Carter - "Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose ..."
By: John Cheever - "In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou ..."
By: Lord Chesterfield - "Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger ..."
By: Gilbert K. Chesterton - "Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- "Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. "
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero - "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. "
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero - "Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "
By: William J. Clinton - "Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would ..."
By: Nick Clooney - "He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy ..."
By: Jean Cocteau - "The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. "
By: Jean Cocteau - "Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. "
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a ..."
By: Charles Caleb Colton - "There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, ..."
By: Charles Caleb Colton - "The U.S. Senate was a nest of cold-warriors and, according to common wisdom, was unlikely ..."
By: Barry Commoner - "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by ..."
By: Confucius - "They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. "
By: Confucius - "Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "
By: Cyril Connolly - "There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. ..."
By: Cyril Connolly - "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the ..."
By: Calvin Coolidge - "Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. "
By: Norman Cousins - "Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows ..."
By: William Cowper - "Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no ..."
By: William Cowper - "People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn ..."
By: Mario Cuomo - "A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than ..."
By: Herb Caen - "For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "
By: Michael Caine - "Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it ..."
By: Richard Cecil - "Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is ..."
By: Ralph Cudworth - "This is my 10-year anniversary producing, making music and... you're not what you were 10 ..."
By: Puff Daddy - "A loving heart is the truest wisdom. "
By: Charles Dickens - "There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "
By: Charles Dickens - "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. "
By: Benjamin Disraeli - "I see all those Solomons out there, I can't wait to hear your wisdom. "
By: Phil Donahue - "The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. "
By: Norman Douglas - "The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired ..."
By: Norman Douglas - "What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? "
By: Norman Douglas - "We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "
By: William O. Douglas - "All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. "
By: Alexandre Dumas
