740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
George A. Romero

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
Joe Baca

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
Emanuel Swedenborg

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
Richard Le Gallienne

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
Peter Jennings

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

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
Eric Ries

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
Kiana Tom

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle Getty

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
Michelle Bachelet

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.
Joshua Foer

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
Michelle Bachelet

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.
Shakti Gawain

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
Shakti Gawain

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Herbie Hancock

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock