Famous Quotes
- 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.
- Jane Byrne on Wisdom
- As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
- As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
- Joseph Prince on Wisdom
- Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.
- Elizabeth Berkley on Wisdom
- At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
- Mason Cooley on Wisdom
- Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
- Anne Bradstreet on Wisdom
- Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
- Carl Sandburg on Wisdom
- Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on Wisdom
- Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
- George Crabbe on Wisdom
- Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
- Robert Bridges on Wisdom
- Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
- Johannes Tauler on Wisdom
- Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom
- 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.
- Lin Yutang on Wisdom
- Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- Baltasar Gracian on Wisdom
- Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw on Wisdom
- 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.
- William Butler Yeats on Wisdom
- Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
- George William Curtis on Wisdom
- Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
- Elizabeth Hardwick on Wisdom
- Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
- John Denham on Wisdom
- Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell on Wisdom
- But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
- China Mieville on Wisdom
- But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola on Wisdom
- 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.
- John Jewel on Wisdom
- But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
- But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
- Edmund Burke on Wisdom
- 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.
- Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
- Mary Kay Ash on Wisdom
- 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.
- Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
- Alice Walker on Wisdom
- Cleverness is not wisdom.
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
- Alastair Campbell on Wisdom
- Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
- William Congreve on Wisdom
- Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Wisdom
- Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
- Tom Peters on Wisdom
- Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
- Gabriel Marcel on Wisdom
- Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
- Nick Clooney on Wisdom
- Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
- Archibald MacLeish on Wisdom
- Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.
- Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
- Walter Benjamin on Wisdom
- Courage is always the surest wisdom.
- Wilfred Grenfell on Wisdom
- Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
- Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
- Clifford Stoll on Wisdom
- Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
- Evelyn Underhill on Wisdom
- Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- H. L. Mencken on Wisdom
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
- M. Scott Peck on Wisdom
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom
- Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Wisdom
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