In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
~By Lucille Ball ~
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
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 ~
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
~By Doug Larson ~
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
~By Jane Byrne ~
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 ~
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
~By Isaac D'Israeli ~
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
~By John Keats ~
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
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 ~
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
~By John Jewel ~
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 ~
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 ~
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
~By George Santayana ~
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
~By Charles Simmons ~
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 ~
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~By Plato ~
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
~By Francis Hutcheson ~
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
~By Ed Miliband ~
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
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 ~
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 ~
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
~By Roone Arledge ~
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
~By John Cheever ~
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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 ~
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
~By Pindar ~
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 ~
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
~By Gabriel Marcel ~
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
~By William Blake ~
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.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
~By Plutarch ~
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
~By Bo Bennett ~
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~By Robert Frost ~
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
~By Norman Douglas ~
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
~By Phil Jackson ~
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
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 ~
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
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 ~
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. ~
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
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 ~
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
~By Elena Kagan ~
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 ~
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
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 ~
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
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 ~
The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
~By John Bigelow ~
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
~By William Wordsworth ~
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
~By Lactantius ~
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 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 ~
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
~By Adam Schiff ~
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 ~
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 ~
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Wisdom is found only in truth.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
~By Zhuang Zi ~
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
~By William Eardley IV ~
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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 ~
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
~By Isocrates ~
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 ~
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
~By Juvenal ~
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