It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
~By Dee Hock ~
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
~By Herb Caen ~
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
~By Wallace Stegner ~
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
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.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
~By Riccardo Muti ~
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
~By Amy Grant ~
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
~By Pierre Charron ~
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
~By Pindar ~
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
~By Elizabeth Hardwick ~
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
~By George Byron ~
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
~By Isaac D'Israeli ~
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
~By Socrates ~
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
~By Pietro Aretino ~
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
~By John Barrymore ~
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
~By Anatole France ~
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
~By George Combe ~
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~By Edith Wharton ~
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
~By Orson Pratt ~
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
~By Marcel Proust ~
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
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.
~By Rod Taylor ~
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
~By Tina Turner ~
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
~By Brigham Young ~
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
~By King Solomon ~
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
~By Francis Quarles ~
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
~By Aristophanes ~
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
~By Lactantius ~
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
~By Plato ~
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
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.
~By William Feather ~
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.
~By Socrates ~
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
~By Plato ~
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
~By Adam Clarke ~
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
~By John A. Simone, Sr. ~
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
~By Wilfrid Sheed ~
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
~By Mary Astell ~
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
~By Euripides ~
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
~By Estelle Getty ~
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
~By Sophocles ~
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
~By Julian Casablancas ~
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~By Tom Wilson ~
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
~By George MacDonald ~
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
~By James Prescott Joule ~
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~By David Starr Jordan ~
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
~By Arthur Cohn ~
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
~By Mary Astell ~
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
~By John Florio ~
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
~By Phyllis Theroux ~
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
~By Richard Cecil ~
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
~By Jesse Helms ~
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
~By Bernard De Voto ~
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
~By Abbott L. Lowell ~
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
~By Peter Hammill ~
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.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
~By Lord Byron ~
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
~By Lin Yutang ~
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
~By Greg Anderson ~
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.
~By Hal Borland ~
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
~By George Santayana ~
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
~By William Dean Howells ~
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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