Wisdom Quotes

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.