Quotes
Quotes about Wisdom
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. - Wisdom.
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.]
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.
He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he knew that he came raw into the world, and accounted it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it.
Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
