Wisdom Quotes

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.