I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.
~By Billy Ray Cyrus ~
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 ~
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
~By John Woolman ~
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 ~
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"
~By Bill Bradley ~
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~By Alex Grey ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
~By George William Curtis ~
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
~By Thomas Moore ~
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
~By John Henry Newman ~
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
~By Paul Klee ~
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
~By William Temple ~
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
~By Randy Forbes ~
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
~By Doug Larson ~
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
~By Edward Young ~
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
~By Solon ~
Wisdom is found only in truth.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
~By Edward Young ~
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
~By Thomas Reid ~
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
~By Beau Bridges ~
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
~By Norman Douglas ~
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
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 ~
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
~By Minna Antrim ~
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
~By William Blake ~
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
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.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
~By John Updike ~
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 ~
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
~By Josh Billings ~
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
~By Gustave Courbet ~
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
~By Joseph Roux ~
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 ~
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
~By Robert Duvall ~
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
~By John Patrick ~
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
~By William J. Clinton ~
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
~By Gene Oliver ~
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
~By John Cheever ~
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
~By Socrates ~
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
~By Holly Near ~
Kindness is wisdom.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
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 ~
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
~By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. ~
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.
~By James Allen ~
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
~By Thomas Shepard ~
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
~By Tom Brown, Jr. ~
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
~By Keith Miller ~
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
~By Robert Orben ~
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 ~
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
~By Erica Jong ~
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~By Plato ~
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
~By Elizabeth George ~
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
~By Bennie Thompson ~
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
~By Euripides ~
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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 ~
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
~By Kiana Tom ~
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
~By Buddha ~
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
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