Wisdom Quotes

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.