Wisdom Quotes

"This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of 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"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters"

Robert E. Lee, General

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

Robert E. Lee, General

"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

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

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more"

William Cowper, Poet

"A king's true power lies not in his armies or his treasures, but in his wisdom and his ability to govern justly"

Philip IV, Royalty

"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom"

James Huneker, Writer

"I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists"

James Newman, Astronaut

"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow"

William Osler, Scientist

"Wisdom sails with wind and time"

John Florio, Writer

"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"

William Feather, Author

"Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths"

Greg Walden, Politician

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

Kiana Tom, Model

"The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next"

Charles Simmons, Politician

"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself"

Tom Wilson, Cartoonist

"The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty"

Zoe Saldana, Actor

"Discipline is wisdom and vice versa"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie"

George A. Romero, Director

"It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly"

John George Nicolay, Writer

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom"

Clifford Stoll, Author

"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way"

George Crabbe, Poet

"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment"

Steve Albini, Musician

"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom"

Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist

"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe"

Aristophanes, Poet

"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive"

William Dunbar, Poet

"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it"

Jenny Shipley, Statesman

"Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

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