Wisdom Quotes

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.