Famous Quotes
- Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
- Joan Rivers on Wisdom
- Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
- Dan Rather on Wisdom
- Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Wisdom
- Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
- Steve Albini on Wisdom
- Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
- Jane Porter on Wisdom
- During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
- Xi Jinping on Wisdom
- Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
- Charles Stanley on Wisdom
- Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
- Joseph Stiglitz on Wisdom
- Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
- Jean Giraudoux on Wisdom
- Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
- Rush Limbaugh on Wisdom
- Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
- Ray Kurzweil on Wisdom
- Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
- Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
- Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
- Rene Russo on Wisdom
- Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
- Thomas Reid on Wisdom
- Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
- Peter Guber on Wisdom
- Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard on Wisdom
- Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
- James Madison on Wisdom
- Every silver lining has a cloud.
- Mary Kay Ash on Wisdom
- Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
- Robert Orben on Wisdom
- Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
- Tom Brown, Jr. on Wisdom
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
- Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce on Wisdom
- Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
- Joseph Roux on Wisdom
- Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley on Wisdom
- Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
- Karl Kraus on Wisdom
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell on Wisdom
- Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
- Thomas B. Macaulay on Wisdom
- Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Wisdom
- Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
- Jonathan Sacks on Wisdom
- Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
- Larry Merchant on Wisdom
- Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey on Wisdom
- For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
- Michael Caine on Wisdom
- For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
- Audrey Hepburn on Wisdom
- For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
- John Webster on Wisdom
- From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
- Publilius Syrus on Wisdom
- Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
- Friedrich Schiller on Wisdom
- Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
- Franz Grillparzer on Wisdom
- Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes on Wisdom
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on Wisdom
- God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
- Johannes Tauler on Wisdom
- 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.
- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola on Wisdom
- 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.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on Wisdom
- Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Wisdom
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter on Wisdom
- Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Wisdom
- Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.
- Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
- Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
- Francis Quarles on Wisdom
- Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
- Liu Xiaobo on Wisdom
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