Wisdom Quotes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

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

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.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.