Wisdom Quotes

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not.

Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I've authored such children's books as the 'Dumpy the Dump Truck' series, 'Dragon: Hound of Honor,' 'The Great American Mousical,' 'Simeon's Gift' and 'Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child.'

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.