Wisdom Quotes

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

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

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.