Wisdom Quotes

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

When I was 28, my wisdom teeth were coming through and I had all four out under general anaesthetic. I remember friends who'd had terrible experiences, but my teeth were removed at 8am and I ate steak and chips for lunch that day.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.