Wisdom Quotes

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.