Famous Quotes
- Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
- Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
- Khalil Gibran on Wisdom
- Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin on Wisdom
- Kindness is wisdom.
- Philip James Bailey on Wisdom
- Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
- E. E. Cummings on Wisdom
- Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
- Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
- Hermann Hesse on Wisdom
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Wisdom
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Calvin Coolidge on Wisdom
- Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Henry Fischer on Wisdom
- Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
- Avery Brooks on Wisdom
- Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Anton Chekhov on Wisdom
- Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
- William Cowper on Wisdom
- Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
- Jeremy Collier on Wisdom
- Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Wisdom
- Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix on Wisdom
- Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Wisdom
- Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings on Wisdom
- Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
- Laurence Sterne on Wisdom
- 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.
- Greg Anderson on Wisdom
- Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Wisdom
- Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
- Edith Wharton on Wisdom
- Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
- Leonard Nimoy on Wisdom
- 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!
- William Eardley IV on Wisdom
- Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
- Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.
- Peter Conrad on Wisdom
- Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson on Wisdom
- Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
- Edmund Burke on Wisdom
- Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
- Arianna Huffington on Wisdom
- Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Wisdom
- 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.
- Hal Borland on Wisdom
- Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple on Wisdom
- 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.
- Bob Woodward on Wisdom
- Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
- Bell Hooks on Wisdom
- Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
- Martin Farquhar Tupper on Wisdom
- Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Wisdom
- Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
- Havelock Ellis on Wisdom
- Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
- Phyllis Theroux on Wisdom
- Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
- Bertolt Brecht on Wisdom
- Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Wisdom
- Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
- Graham Greene on Wisdom
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- George Eliot on Wisdom
- 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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Wisdom
- Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
- Wallace Stegner on Wisdom
- Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
- Charles Simmons on Wisdom
- Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
- Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven on Wisdom
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