I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
~By Richard Cecil ~
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~By Robert Frost ~
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 ~
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 ~
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
~By Stanley Kunitz ~
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
~By Socrates ~
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 ~
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
~By Abbott L. Lowell ~
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
~By Aeschylus ~
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
~By Norman Douglas ~
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
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 ~
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
~By Michael Caine ~
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
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.
~By William Dunbar ~
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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 faith rather than reason.
~By Hal Borland ~
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 ~
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
~By Janet Jackson ~
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
~By Elizabeth Hardwick ~
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
~By George Arliss ~
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
~By Joseph Story ~
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 ~
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
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 ~
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
Wisdom begins in wonder.
~By Socrates ~
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~By Plato ~
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
~By Abigail Adams ~
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
~By Konstantin Stanislavisky ~
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 ~
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
~By George William Curtis ~
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
~By Bob Woodward ~
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
~By Herb Caen ~
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
~By Akhenaton ~
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
~By Gerald Brenan ~
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
~By William Cowper ~
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
~By Amy Grant ~
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
~By Josh Billings ~
There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
~By Charles Spalding ~
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 ~
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
~By Plato ~
I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.
~By Josh Brolin ~
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 ~
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
~By James Hillman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
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 ~
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
~By Dale Turner ~
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
~By William Law ~
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
~By Roger Ascham ~
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 ~
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
~By Ralph Cudworth ~
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
~By Minna Antrim ~
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
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 clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
~By Edward Young ~
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
~By William Penn ~
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
~By Anatole France ~
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 ~
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
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